Aug. 29, 2025

(no music) (10 hours) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1425 | Jason Newland | 29th August 2025

(no music) (10 hours) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1425 | Jason Newland | 29th August 2025
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Welcome to another episode of Q&A Friday on Let Me Bore You to Sleep with Jason Newland. In this relaxed and often humorous session, Jason answers listener questions ranging from comedy and pets to birthdays and glasses. As always, the conversation wanders into personal stories, reflections, and playful tangents that make this series so engaging. Episode Timestamps

  • 0:00 – 3:22 | Introduction, PayPal gifts, and Jason’s Facebook group.
  • 3:23 – 6:17 | Morning routine with Vinny, running in the rain, and early chatter.
  • 6:20 – 12:07 | Vinny’s barking habits, dog behavior, and Jason’s thoughts on pets.
  • 12:10 – 20:20 | Council flats, new kitchens, and noisy neighbors during recordings.
  • 20:23 – 23:10 | Listener message from Cara, AI video experiments, and teeth talk.
  • 23:15 – 27:28 | Setup for Q&A Friday, questions gathered from the Facebook group.
Listener Questions & Answers
  • 27:29 – 55:09 | Dev’s question: Books, audiobooks, and resources for writing comedy. Jason shares experiences in stand-up, recommendations, and reflections on Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Steve Martin, and others.
  • 55:11 – 1:01:47 | Maria’s question: Glasses—bifocals, varifocals, or contact lenses? Jason talks about his eyesight, glasses journey, and family history of macular degeneration.
  • 1:01:48 – 1:21:48 | Hope’s question: How did Jason end up adopting Andre the ferret? A heartfelt story about falling in love with Andre, bonding, and how he changed Jason’s life.
  • 1:21:50 – 1:23:36 | Rich’s question: When is Vinny’s birthday? Jason shares the details and a little backstory.
  • 1:23:38 – 1:25:49 | Robin’s question: Have you ever been inside Hampton Court Palace? Jason recalls his childhood visit and funny memories.
  • 1:25:49 – 1:36:11 | Kathleen’s question: What’s the best birthday present you’ve ever received? Jason reflects on childhood birthdays, his first bike, and sentimental family memories.
  • 1:36:14 – 1:43:00 | Mary’s question: How do you design your episode artwork? Jason explains using AI, Canva, and his creative process for images.


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Hello, Hello, Hello, everybody. How are you doing today? Everybody?

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Are you well? Are you?

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Oh?

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It's nice?

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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name's Jason

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Newland and please only listen when you can safely close

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your eyes. And welcome to Q and A Friday. This

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is Friday's version of let me bore you to sleep.

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LMB white yes, ELM maybe yeah, LMB white yes. And

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Vinnie was all calm and quiet and as soon as

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I start talking, he jumps down and decides to make

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as much sound as he can, bless his little bum.

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So yeah, it's what is it?

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It's Friday the twenty night for August.

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Two thousand and twenty five. And by the way, I

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try to say thank you to everyone that sent me

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a PayPal gift, but there was I wasn't able to

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contact everyone because I could find a way to contact

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see on PayPal usually has like an email address or something,

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but on this one person it didn't, or a couple

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of people. So I do apologize. But I did post

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thank you on my Facebook group, so I should let

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you know. I've got a Facebook group called Jason Newland's

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Boring Group, and as it says, as you imagine, it's

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probably not the most exciting place to be, but it's

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really just for people that love listening to the Jason

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to the Let Me Buoy to Sleep podcasts.

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Yeah, okay, what we've done today.

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I was going to say, actually, if you, if you

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want to help me out, and this would really really

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help me out a lot to get more placed on

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Google is and also help the podcast out is wherever

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you're listening to me, could you perhaps lead a review

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that'd be brilliant and maybe regularly as well. You know,

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if there's a recording you particular like, maybe you can

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just say what you like about it, Because the more

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reviews I get on my podcasts, whether it's on Spotify,

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if you're listening on I don't know, it's quite a

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few different places that you could be listening. Where we

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got what have we got? Apple podcasts, podcast Addict, Overcast, Spotify,

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my website, Jasonnewland dot com, cast box, Deezer, my Heart Radio, Edge,

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pocket casts, Chrome and Tenor, pod Speaker, Android app, i

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Vook's Audible, VLC, Alexa, media Player, Roku, and many of us. Actually,

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if you can do that, that would be really really

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helpful because it could help me to reach more people

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and hopefully help more people. Thank you very much. So

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I haven't done a huge amount today. I woke up,

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had my breakfast, took Vinoy out, and then we got

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rained on. It was raining, and to start with, it's

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just like a little bit, you know, spitting as I say,

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just a little bit weird word, isn't it weird term

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for rain and being spat on? Like yeah, lovely? But

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that was okay, and then it started proper raining and

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I ran back. This is about eight o'clock in the morning,

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so I'm running back with Vinnie, and Vinnie decides he

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wants to start. He wants to start smelling things, sniffing

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things like why but yeah, memo, it's now warm in here.

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What'sn't warm? Earlier it wasn't hold but it was cool.

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I mean, I'm doing my top. Oh, it doesn't made

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no difference. Great, Just trying to look at some messages

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I got here, all right, So I'll get on with

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the recording, shall I don't normally just taking them out again.

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There's quite a lot of screaming outside, but it is

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in a distance, so I'm guessing it's possibly a like

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a party or something kids party, because it's very high pitched,

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so I'm guessing that's what that is. And it's it's

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not it's not close by unless it's in someone's flat,

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but it sounds like it's like a distance away. You

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might hear it, you might not hear it. I've got

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my curtains drawn, the windows are closed, which is probably

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why it's hot in it. They stuff it and for

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some reason this is weird. For some reason, there's a

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cobweb and it's moving around. So I'm wondering if the

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heatings come on, shouldn't really have come on. It's not

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that cold. It's not warm outside, but it's not cold either.

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It feels it really does feel like autumn is approaching.

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It's a very Awetomny kind of ish, you know. Yeah.

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I took him out again a little while ago, about

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an hour ago. And it's weird because Vinny's got into

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this thing, like he never used to bark at dogs,

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and he always used to love to saying lo to everyone,

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including dogs. Now and then he changed and he started

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to be a bit barking towards some dogs, but always

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like really friendly to all people. And more recently over

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the last few months. He's he knows who he likes

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and he you know, he's not it's so, but he

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knows who he doesn't like. And there's this particular couple

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with a dog and he barks every time, and I

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don't know, they seem to be annoyed by it. I

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can't help him barking. I mean he does. That's what

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dogs do, isn't it. I make sure he keep him away,

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and he's it's not like he's a scary dog or anything.

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He's a tiny little jack Russell. But I don't know

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if it's a dog or the people that he's barking at,

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because I'm pretty sure I saw them out without the

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dog once and he's barking at them. So I don't know.

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He's just got his own sense of I guess who

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he likes and who doesn't like, and I can't figure

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it out. So yeah, it's a shame because he barks

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at the wrong dogs as well. He's just the dogs

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that have got no like the nice dogs. Not always.

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they look like they want to eat him. But a

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few dogs he'll bark at and they're so gentle. But

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then He's got a handful of dogs that he loves

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that he spends time with, and you know, he doesn't

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necessarily play with them, but he's just happy to be

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around them. But he gives the attention to the owner,

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to the human. And then there's three dogs that he's

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friends with that he will play with, and he's not

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particularly interested in the owner. He is still I mean,

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he'll get treats. He's always around him. That's his main

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focus in life is to get treats. But at the

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same time, he also likes to play with the dog.

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I just can't keep track of I don't really I

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wish there was a way of communicating with him in

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a way that would make sense of his behavior. I'm

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no dog expert. And before anyone says, why don't you

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just watch those dog those programs on dogs and the

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dog expert TV programs, you can probably watch lots of

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them on YouTube, And the answer is no, I can't

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do that because as soon as a dog comes on

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the screen, Vinnie lets me know there's a dog on

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the screen, which is very annoying, especially when I'm watching

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a movie and it's like early hours of the morning

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or it's the evening time when I really don't want

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him to be barking, you know, like nine and ten

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at night. Well, I'm usually in bed by them, but

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if I'm watching a movie and a dog comes on,

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it's so yeah, rare rah rah rah rah rah rah

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rah rah. Okay, he barks. He doesn't do the sound

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I made, but he barks. And there's been times I

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had to turn the movie off because he won't stop barking,

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and it's just like, oh stop it, man, please store pats.

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So yeah, we went out earlier, came back. Downstairs flat

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is being refurbished. This is funny, Well it's not funny,

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but they're putting in a brand new kitchen. Now. The

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person lived down there for a year, because that's where

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Lucas lived. She moved in. Two people were getting their bathroom,

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their kitchen's done, Uncle sausages one of them, and another

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person downstairs. I didn't. I haven't had my kitchen done.

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She called the council. That's what she told me. This

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is the lady that was living in that flat for

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a year. She moved out recently to say when am

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I getting my kitchen done about herself rather not about me?

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And they told her, But this is what she told me.

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She said they said to her that the kitchen had

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already been done a couple of years back, which I

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know is untrue because I probably would have remembered that,

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wouldn't I don't you think it's like nothing that interesting

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has happened in his flat when he lived there, in

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a sense of anything. I mean, his windows were hanging

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on by a nail. Its front windows, they would like

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rattle when when it was windy, there'd be a breeze

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when all the windows were closed, they literally it'll blow

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you over. So because it was just like all loose,

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the counsel came around and the hammered a couple of

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nails in. That's it. It's like, wow, Okay. So when

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she moved in and she's like she wanted a new

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kitchen and a new barth room and all that stuff,

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and the council said no, because I've always been done,

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which I hadn't had been done but maybe twenty years ago.

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And I've been in all the flats except one. Yeah,

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I've not been to one flat. I've not been in

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I don't think, but I've been in all the other flats,

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not like regularly, but I've seen the kitchens in every flat.

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I mean, downstairs is pretty much identical to my flat

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below me. It's the same layout and Luke's old flat.

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I'm imagining up stairs, the one that I know been in,

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would be the same design, the same layout. However, perhaps

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not actually because Uncle Sausages Flat. Yeah, that's weird. Uncle

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Sausages Flat was maybe not. Maybe it wasn't different, No,

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it probably No, it's the same layout, the same layout

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as downstairs as well. Yeah, same layout. I'm just trying

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to remember because I've not been in that flat very often.

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It's been a while since i've been in there, and

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I know Uncle Sausages Flat layout quite well. And my

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own of course, and you know the one that my

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friend used to live in. I went in there a

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couple of times since the new person moved in. I

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should have moved down now, but by winning there a

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couple of times, it was very weird. I didn't like

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being in there, although it looked nothing like it did.

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It was really if you close your eyes and someone

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took you in there and you didn't know where you was,

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took you into one of the rooms, not the kitchen,

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the bathroom, because it looks the same, but it took

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you into one of the rooms and it's like you

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wouldn't necessarily know where you was to start with. I mean,

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the windows the same, but the deck or the furniture,

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it's very different, very different. It was much neater, tidier. Yeah,

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it's much more just nicer, very I would say, minimalist.

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Not that he was a hoarder, but it's you know,

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had less stuff in there, just different kitchen. The kitchen

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looked different as well, but then you know it had

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a new fridge, treeser, new cooker, new microwave, new toaster,

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new kettle. And how do I know that because I'm

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the one who bought it all yep, yeah, and a

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new TV. I got that for her as well. Why

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did you do that?

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Then?

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I don't know. I just wanted to help. And this

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is last summer, but yeah, hey, not this summer, but

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last year two thousand and twenty four. She did say

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she was going to give me, give me money back

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for it, but she didn't. So hm, I'm trying to think,

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what is that noise out there? Maybe it's a birthday party.

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Good on them, that's the thing I try, you know,

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if there's if I was doing a recording where I

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needed complete silence, I mean, that's the ideal situation personally,

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But as long as I got Vinnie eating treats on

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the floor, there ain't going to be complete silence, And

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as long as I'm talking, it's not going to be

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complete silence. But because I can hear it, I don't

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know if you can hear it, it's it's not a

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distraction for me now, although I guess it is because

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I'm mentioning it, but not in a kind of annoying way.

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going to relax your toenails, and moving up to your pubes.

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It was that kind of where I would be trying

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to be all sensible and serious and deeply relaxed. It's

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a bit of incongruence when internally I'm thinking.

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Woll you shut up that noise, you.

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Know, and every now and then getting up and shouting

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out the window and then sitting back down and continue

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that feeling of your knees knocking together. I don't know

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why that would happen, So I suppose I should just

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get on with the the point of the reason why

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I'm doing this recording, shouldn't I Q and a Friday

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No no jingle? Um, that's weet. Okay, there you go,

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there we go. I'm losing laugh Oh okay, sorry, I

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just got a message from Kara. Thanks Carra, and that

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made me laugh. Your message made me laugh. I'm going

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to read it out because it's not private. It is private,

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it's not I'm my good. Oh my gracious, I'm losing

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my marbles laughing over Luke embarrassing you by saluting magpies.

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I love it so much. Thank you, Kara. That was

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yesterday's recording. So, by the way, anyone who watched my

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little I did this little like blowing and kiss thing

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a couple of days ago, and it was Ai. I

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did say it was Ai. I said thank you again

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for all your birthday wishes. I created this Ai video

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from a photo I have better teeth here and it's

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been blowing and then this big smile and like perfect teeth.

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I mean, my teeth ain't awful, but like they're not

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it looks like a kind of I had my teeth done,

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you know, they were like perfectly sparkly white and in fact,

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I don't think if I smile my teeth that amount

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of teeth doesn't show. If that makes sense, I'd have

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to lift my upper lift up. Look, I was just

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doing it and it didn't actually make sense. I can't.

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I can't tell you what I had to do and

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do it at the same time because you it's not understandable.

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in order for my or staple of up. I say again,

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it didn't work, or you know, pushing them up somehow

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me trying to tell you that is this I have

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a favor in order for you to see all my teeth. See,

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it doesn't quite work. But it's quite amazing though, because

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the rest of me looks fine. My face looks the same.

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it is me, but there's part of it which is

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quite amazing, I think because my face, because as you

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look at it like that is how my face would

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go generalely if I smiled. Apart from that, there wouldn't.

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It's not as much too Fidge. Yeah, AI is getting

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very clever, no so Q and a Friday, I posted

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a oh yeah, any questions for Q and a Friday.

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I posted it on Monday, I do believe. So that's

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what I've tried to do because a couple of weeks ago,

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I think I posted it on the Wednesday and I've

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got one question, so and I didn't do I didn't

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do it because one question wasn't enough for really to

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do a whole podcast, although technically it probably was. Thinking

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about it, I mean, I've not even started the questions

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yet and I'm still down nearly half an hour. I

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can't help it. I just can't stop talking. So I've

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got a new way of doing it now. So on

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a Monday, if I remember, I post this image which

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is on a post it on Jason Newland's boring group

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why Not Join, And it's just basically color thing, colored thing,

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and it says any questions for this week's Q and

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a Friday, Kiss Kiss Kiss, and then a couple of

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arrows either side pointing down to a yellow part of

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the image, and then the date when the Q and

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A Friday will be so, in this case to twenty

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ninth of April. And I'm going to post one of

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those if I remember, every Monday, but just change the date,

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you know me Next week's one will be why is

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this not opening? There?

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It is?

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So I want all all comments, right, got it? So

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I've got questions from Maria, Hope, Rich, Robin, Kathleen, Mary,

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Dev and Ryl. So I'm going to ask you. I'm

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going to answer Dev's question first because, as it says here,

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Hello Jason. Also belated birthday greetings to you. Thank you Dev.

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This is a sort of rollover question from last week,

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but I probably posted it too late. Yeah, I think

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you posted it. I'd already made the recording at that point.

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So I'm going to answer Dev's question first because of that.

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Because this is from last week. As you were involved

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in the comedy scene, I wanted to know, are there

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any books or audiobooks, podcasts, etc. That you would recommend

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for learning about writing comedy? Thanks in advance. What I

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would advise I didn't do this myself, which explains why

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I wasn't very good. But there are comedy courses you

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can do depending on where you live, of course, so

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I'm based in England, but at the time I lived

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in London, which is still England, and they had a

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comedy course. I forget what it was called, but it

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was very popular. And I would say probably sixty percent

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of the new comedians have been on that course, maybe

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forty percent, but quite a few comedians have been on

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that course, and quite a few of them went on

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to do okay. So I went on to do really

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really well. I didn't do the course, and yeah, I didn't.

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I don't know why. I'm not sure. I kind of

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wish I had. I would have benefited from doing that.

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I did go to a Mandy Knight, who was really

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I don't know if she's still doing comedy, but she was.

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I used to going really well with her, and she

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was originally in a double act where she did improv.

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She's really good. She's a really funny, funny lady, and

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she held this improv class. So I went along to

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do it, to do it, and thinking about it the

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way I've kind of turned out, I'm I reckon I

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might have been better at doing some kind of improv,

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you know, bouncing off other people. That might have been

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a better way for me to go instead of sit

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standing on stage just trying to, you know, remember something

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that I'd written down at home. So there's lots of

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different ways.

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To do it.

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the I mean, one answer to your question is that

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our books out there, there are where books on how

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to do stand up. So I'm going to do all

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the work for you instead of you going online and

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searching for yourself. I'll do it. Don't worry. I've got

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plenty of time.

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I'm not busy on Amazon. There is as a chicken.

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Two books I remember rightly. Okay, this is one I

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don't know, Old Richard Belzer. Okay, he's he's very famous

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comedian in America. How to be a stand up Comedian.

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So that's a hardback book. I've not read that. The

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uh where is it? This is a book I used

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to have called The Last Laugh The World of stand

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Up Comics. Now I almost want to get it again,

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but I'm kind of cutting down on my books now.

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stand up comedy in America, because that's pretty much where

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it originated. Stand up comedy is an American thing. Really.

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They were doing alternative comedy in the fifties. We started

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doing it in the late seventies, you know, is I

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say we? But in this country they've always been decades

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ahead of us, not anymore, not anymore, but for a

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long time. And the English stand up comedians we've kind of,

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when I say the newer breed, I'm talking last few decades,

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hugely influenced by American comedians, hugely influenced. But I would

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say possibly Americans are now influenced by us, maybe as well,

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because because of the Internet, everything's kind of in the

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same time span. Now we're not really behind anymore. But

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that book The Last Laugh won't teach you to do

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standard comedy, but it's really I used to have it

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in one of the first books on comedy I ever bought,

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in about nineteen ninety one. I lent it to someone

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and I never gave it back. Who was it? Did that? Anyway?

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It was a really good book, talks about I give

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you an example of the book. Out of it talks

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about Rodney d Dangerfield. So Rodney Danefield was a comedian

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in the sixties and he went he basically quit comedy

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for about ten years, and then he came back and

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he became famous in the seventies. But he was like

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a lot older. And you know, I mean, if you

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think about Rodney Dangerfield. Don't know, he's no longer with us,

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but I can't ever remember him being young. Of course

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he was at one point, we all was at one point,

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but he always that that look he had made it

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kind of fitted in with his comedy. So maybe he

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was too young before because a lot of the stand

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up comedy really kind of post war, post Second World War.

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there'd be lots of coffee shops around America and people

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were performing coffee shops. They do nothing practically, but you know,

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there's there'd there'd be a whole alternative kind of culture,

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and that's where people like Lenny Bruce came up, and

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George Carlin and maybe Richard Pryor as well. And then

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in the sixties, Lenny Bruce was a huge star in

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America for a while, and Richard Pryor was in the

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sixties to start with. It probably started in the fifties actually,

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but he was in the sixties. He became well known

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in America for a while because he'd I think he

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said something, what did Richard Pryor say? He earned a

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really good living for about five years, mimicking Bill Cosby,

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and by that I mean like with the jokes, with

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the act, nothing else. And for those that don't know

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Bill Cosby, don't worry. I'm not going anywhere weird with this.

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I think a lot of people outside of America maybe

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don't realize how big Bill Cosby was. And I'm not

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talking about TV wise, I'm talking about before television, not

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before television was invented, but before television. He was on television.

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Like anyone in the Western world is probably very well

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aware of the Bill Cosby Show, or maybe remembers that

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if they're you know, over a certain age. Maybe I

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don't think it's shown very often now for some reason,

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the reruns aren't on TV anymore. So he was. He

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was the biggest paid star. It was weird because in

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about nineteen eighty nine, nineteen eighty eight something like that,

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the three biggest paid star, according to the newspapers I

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was reading, were all Americans. So the biggest paid stars

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in America anyway entertainers. So you had Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby,

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and Prince and they were all making like one hundred

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million a year something like that. Prince was constantly on tour,

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selling millions of albums. Bill Cosby was on TV and

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his TV show was everywhere the most famous comedian in

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the world. Although I didn't know he was a comedian.

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I just knew he was Doctor Huxtable. I didn't know

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him as being didn't really know. I mean, I knew

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he was called Bill Cosby because it was the It

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wasn't a Huxtable show, was It was the Cosby Show.

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Confuse me a little bit. That doesn't take much and

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isn't that amazing? But before that, Bill Cosby, I'm not

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saying that he was more famous, but he was a

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huge star long before the Bill Cosby Show that you know,

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Cosby's in America. He filled out arenas all over America

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with his stand up. He had best selling albums comedy

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albums in the sixties, huge star sixties and seventies. He

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was massive, and of course he was massive in the

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eighties as well, for a different thing. He was huge.

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It's really I don't mean to gush. That's a weird word,

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isn't it. I don't mean to be all gushy about it,

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especially as you know I'm forgetting about any personal stuff

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to do with him. But it was on a level

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that I don't think anyone really reached because he reached

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a much wider audience than someone like Richard Pryor, who

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are a lot of people, because a lot of comedians

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they would say, they may say maybe not now, but

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they used to say, this is Lenny Bruce was pretty

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much the most influential stand up comedian ever. But the

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king of comedy was Richard Pryor. And that used to

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be kind of the pretty much the understood accepted, I'm

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not going to say the word narrative, also just said

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it of stand up comedy. Like Lenny Bruce, he broke

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through barriers, He got arrested constantly, and he pretty much

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he died for his art, you could say. And he

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was funny, but then he got very he got caught

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up in all the court cases, and that's all he

450
00:38:15.559 --> 00:38:17.880
did on stage was just talk about his court cases.

451
00:38:22.039 --> 00:38:25.280
Richard Pryor, and he broke a lot of taboos, which

452
00:38:26.280 --> 00:38:31.679
more than probably anyone else at the time. But then

453
00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:36.360
when Richard Pryor went on stage, he got away with

454
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:41.119
a lot more because it was you know, it was

455
00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:48.599
years later. And also he could talk about being black

456
00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:52.039
and he couldn't get in trouble for that Lenny Bruce

457
00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:56.599
used to talk about the different things between the races

458
00:38:56.639 --> 00:38:59.719
in America, and he got in trouble for it, and

459
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:03.599
people got upset. But Richard Pryor, I don't know why

460
00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:06.360
that's funny, but just Richard Pryor did it in a day.

461
00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:09.440
I'm just thinking of I'm remembering Richard Pryor. That's all

462
00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:12.480
I'm laughing at. Is I remembering some of the stuff

463
00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:18.000
that he used to talk about. John And I'll tell you

464
00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:21.480
one of his jokes from his albums, Richard Prior. I

465
00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:26.199
can't even tell you the name of the album, Okay,

466
00:39:26.440 --> 00:39:33.159
I mean, bearing in mind right now, you can't buy

467
00:39:33.199 --> 00:39:37.440
the album out. They put a sticker over the cut

468
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:41.559
of the image of it, like if you watch it,

469
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:45.039
if you go on Amazon or stuff like that, they

470
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:49.199
will cover over the word. But in the seventies they didn't.

471
00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:56.880
But one of his names his albums was that N

472
00:39:56.960 --> 00:40:04.840
word is crazy by some by centennial N word and

473
00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:08.159
you know, and he used that word a lot, but

474
00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:12.039
the albums were named with that word on it. Now,

475
00:40:12.119 --> 00:40:17.960
Lenny Bruce, if he'd have done something like that, it'd

476
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:21.719
still be in prison, would still be alive probably well,

477
00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:27.639
but Richard Pryor got away with that just shows you

478
00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:30.400
how different things were by the time Richard Pryor was famous.

479
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:34.079
But one of his jokes on one of his albums

480
00:40:34.239 --> 00:40:43.360
is there's two brothers. As he said, two brothers stand

481
00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:47.360
because he was talking about the cliche of different body

482
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:50.519
parts and sizes between races and stuff. I'm not going

483
00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:53.800
to it, but he said, I won't do that his voice.

484
00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:55.400
I used to be able to do his voice quite well.

485
00:40:56.239 --> 00:41:03.039
Two brothers standing on a bridge. Weewi's that's side by

486
00:41:03.079 --> 00:41:09.239
side wei in off a bridge and one of them says, oh,

487
00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:15.280
the war's cold, and everyone says, yeah, it's deep too,

488
00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:20.840
so it's yeah, it's quite a funny joy. It's funny

489
00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:26.079
when he says it. I just think that's some on

490
00:41:26.119 --> 00:41:28.239
the stard. I can't tell you this. You know, he's

491
00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:31.320
worth listening to if you've never I realized that's not

492
00:41:31.360 --> 00:41:35.320
the question. But if you want to hear something that

493
00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:42.199
you've perhaps never heard before, maybe check out a Richard

494
00:41:42.199 --> 00:41:49.440
Pryor album. Because if you've seen Richard prior just in

495
00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:52.480
movies and as I had up to the age of

496
00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:57.360
about eighteen or nineteen, I didn't know he did stand

497
00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:07.480
up comedy. Maybe eighteen, I knew he was in Brewster's

498
00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:12.880
Millions and See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Stir

499
00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:17.519
Crazy and all those movies that he did with What's

500
00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:22.280
his Name and Superman three. So you know, I loved

501
00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:25.559
Richard Pryor when I was a little kid or growing up.

502
00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:29.840
I loved him. It was hilarious, but I didn't know

503
00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:32.480
he did stand up comedy. And there's no way in

504
00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:34.679
the world that anyone was going to show me his

505
00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:37.880
stand up comedy because I was a little kid, because

506
00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:41.880
it was adults rating and my dad was never into

507
00:42:41.880 --> 00:42:44.840
that kind of stuff anyway, so I never got to

508
00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:49.039
hear it. And then when I was nine to about eighteen,

509
00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:54.079
I I thought, well, I was in the second hand shop,

510
00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:57.719
I think, like a record shop, and I was looking

511
00:42:57.719 --> 00:43:01.559
through the albums because I started listening to albums like

512
00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:06.519
Steve Martin, Emo Phillips. I started buying albums as well,

513
00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:13.119
so Emo Phillips, Steve Martin, Steven Wright, Bill Cosby. There

514
00:43:13.159 --> 00:43:15.719
was quite a few Bill Cosby albums, and it was

515
00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:21.880
like I was so transfixed. And I started getting videos

516
00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:25.800
as well, so Steve Martin, as I said, comics from here,

517
00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:32.760
as well, Jerry Sadovich loads loads of sort of stand

518
00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:36.519
up to me. I had quite a nice library actually

519
00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:43.679
of videos, and I discovered Richard Pryor. So the two

520
00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:49.039
things that I really remember discovering was well, Steve Martin.

521
00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:52.360
I had no idea that he was a comedian. I've

522
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:54.840
seen him in movies, and some of his early movies

523
00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:59.840
I loved long before he was famous in this country.

524
00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:02.920
I watched these films like dead Men, Don't Be a

525
00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:08.760
Plaid and Lonely Guy and The Man with Two Brains

526
00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:13.519
and stuff like that. What's the other one two of Me?

527
00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:17.000
Or I forget it, but they were good with Lily

528
00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:20.679
Tomlin that was so funny. And then he did the

529
00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:25.320
Jerk and he became more famous worldwide. It was famous

530
00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:28.360
in America already. I didn't know that he was selling

531
00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:33.920
out arenas doing stand up comedy. Now, Dev you're probably

532
00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:37.119
regretting asking me that question, because you've got me onto

533
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:40.159
a subject that I didn't realize that still had a

534
00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:48.400
bit of passion for, which is weird. But yeah, when

535
00:44:48.440 --> 00:44:53.159
I discovered Richard Pryor's albums, I couldn't believe what I

536
00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:56.039
was listening to because it was stuff that I wasn't

537
00:44:56.079 --> 00:45:01.199
supposed to be saying, still not allowed to say, but

538
00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:04.840
it was. I hadn't heard, hadn't really heard other people

539
00:45:04.920 --> 00:45:12.639
say it. And then I discovered George Carlin, who in

540
00:45:12.679 --> 00:45:17.079
a way probably made me laugh even more. Some of

541
00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:23.559
his earlier stand up comic albums so funny, and I

542
00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:27.559
really got into him probably in the early probably about

543
00:45:27.639 --> 00:45:30.719
nineteen ninety and then ninety one, so I was listening

544
00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:33.039
to him quite a lot. Then when I kind of

545
00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:39.840
started out doing comedy, and I had it influenced me

546
00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:44.159
in no way. So I was listening in regularity, regularly,

547
00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:50.840
I was listening a lot to some of the greatest comedians,

548
00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:56.079
and it did not improve my performance. And also I

549
00:45:56.199 --> 00:46:02.039
was seeing in person some brilliant comedians regularly, like every week,

550
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:07.239
sometimes two three times a week, including those that I

551
00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:09.400
used to be on the same bill with, and I

552
00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:11.800
still didn't get any better. Well, I got a little

553
00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:17.840
bit better, but I didn't. I didn't improve to the

554
00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:20.679
point where you kind of think I would do being

555
00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:26.039
around such talent, which I was for a long time.

556
00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:30.800
I mean I was involved with the comedy scene for

557
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:36.719
a long time, a long long time. But anyway, Yes,

558
00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:43.599
so Derek and Clyde was another one was Derek and Clive,

559
00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:52.679
Derek and Clive, which was what was it, Peter Cook

560
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:59.599
and Dudley Moore. I discovered them in nineteen ninety or

561
00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:03.760
maybe it was nine, maybe nineteen ninety. I remember listening

562
00:47:03.800 --> 00:47:06.159
to it during my breaks at work with another colleague

563
00:47:06.159 --> 00:47:10.840
at work and we were just laughing because it was

564
00:47:11.039 --> 00:47:16.880
so funny because I'd never heard an English person talk

565
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:20.679
like that say. The things that they were saying was

566
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:29.239
so outrageous, so wrong on every level, but hilarious. I

567
00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:34.440
just found it absolutely hilarious. And there was three albums,

568
00:47:35.440 --> 00:47:38.960
I think, including the live ones, so there's ad Nauseum

569
00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:42.800
Come Again, and I think it was just a live one.

570
00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:46.440
I think, unless there was four albums, I think it

571
00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:54.239
was three. Anyway, as far as books go, yes, I've

572
00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:56.719
got a couple. I can't find the one I was

573
00:47:56.760 --> 00:47:59.480
looking for. So there are quite a few stand up

574
00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:01.960
books Stand Up Comic, How to Become a Stand Up

575
00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:12.039
Comic on Amazon, so there's a few. But what I

576
00:48:12.079 --> 00:48:15.280
would probably recommend if you're living in London, or if

577
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:19.079
you're in a city or just check there might be

578
00:48:19.119 --> 00:48:24.639
something local, is if you can find a course which

579
00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:30.559
you can go to you like a four week course,

580
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:33.800
one evening a week or one Saturday afternoon a week

581
00:48:33.880 --> 00:48:38.599
for six weeks or whatever, because the benefit of that

582
00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:44.039
is firstly you'll be it'll be an introduction to the

583
00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:49.599
comedy world a much probably quite a gentle way to

584
00:48:49.639 --> 00:48:53.039
do it in some ways, because I think quite often

585
00:48:53.079 --> 00:48:58.559
the way they they like format it is you go along.

586
00:48:59.599 --> 00:49:03.639
You're in a room with maybe five, six, ten, twelve

587
00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:06.119
people that you've never met before, but they're in the

588
00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:09.199
same they're at the same level as you. They're the

589
00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:11.719
same if they're just starting out, or maybe they've done

590
00:49:11.760 --> 00:49:17.039
a few gigs, or maybe they've never done it, but

591
00:49:17.159 --> 00:49:19.760
what they were have in common with you is enthusiasm

592
00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:25.840
and you know, the dream of doing it, and maybe

593
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:29.679
most of them have never been on stage before as

594
00:49:29.679 --> 00:49:36.719
a comedian. And then you've got the teacher who is

595
00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:40.239
going to be very much likely or have many many

596
00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:45.800
years of being a comedian and thinking about this course.

597
00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:50.840
In London, they used to have headliners from the comedy

598
00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:54.920
circuit in London every week come along and talk to

599
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:59.159
the group, which is something you're not going to get

600
00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:05.199
in any other city cuation. It's you know, it's I mean,

601
00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:08.280
you probably can go to comedy club and say hello

602
00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:11.159
to someone that's been on stage. You know, they'd a

603
00:50:11.239 --> 00:50:15.840
headliner and self, I really enjoyed your your performance, they

604
00:50:15.920 --> 00:50:19.239
might say thanks, But the chances of them sitting down

605
00:50:19.320 --> 00:50:22.599
for half an hour and actually going through what it's

606
00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:28.239
like to be a comedian and getting advice. Even I

607
00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:32.800
struggled to get that. And I was a comic and

608
00:50:32.840 --> 00:50:36.079
I knew these people, you know. Once I started, I

609
00:50:36.119 --> 00:50:38.760
got to know some people, and I didn't get hardly

610
00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:43.440
any advice. I think I was given up for as

611
00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:49.119
a lost cause first, very early on, and I just

612
00:50:49.960 --> 00:50:52.320
it seemed like the biggest joke of my comedy act

613
00:50:52.400 --> 00:51:00.679
was me. That was the biggest joke. Bless see, I'm

614
00:51:00.679 --> 00:51:06.280
sure I've either been either did Benivo or whatever. I

615
00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:10.599
used to have a book. But then another thing in

616
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:14.039
the course they do is generally, as far as I know,

617
00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:20.960
they build up to you doing putting a nice five

618
00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:24.400
minutes together and you performing every week you go and

619
00:51:24.440 --> 00:51:26.440
performing something in front of the rest of the group,

620
00:51:27.679 --> 00:51:32.400
with the culmination of an actual gig at the end

621
00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:34.480
of it, and all of you will go on stage

622
00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:36.719
in front of a paid audience, or maybe a free

623
00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:42.559
audience at a comedy club or come a comedy night

624
00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:44.920
or something like that. So there'll be an audience, an

625
00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:49.400
audience members will be there and you get a chance

626
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:54.519
to perform in front of complete strangers, an actual proper

627
00:51:54.559 --> 00:51:58.079
comedy audience for the first time. And the good thing

628
00:51:58.079 --> 00:52:01.920
about that is the audience know what come into It's

629
00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:05.880
not like an ordinary open night, spot night where they

630
00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:08.800
might be coming to heckel and stuff. They're coming to

631
00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:12.159
support because they know that you've just gone through a course,

632
00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:15.079
a six week course or whatever. So they're going to

633
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:18.320
be supportive. They're not going to laugh if it's not funny,

634
00:52:18.360 --> 00:52:21.880
but they're still they're not going to be hard on

635
00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:28.679
the comedians and be open to like it's nice now.

636
00:52:28.719 --> 00:52:31.119
I kind of I've got a lot of information from

637
00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:33.400
about these courses because I know a lot of people

638
00:52:33.400 --> 00:52:38.480
that went on them what I did. And yeah, so

639
00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:42.320
that's what I would recommend. The books are good. You

640
00:52:42.360 --> 00:52:45.599
can learn something from books. Of course, most of my

641
00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:55.559
learning has really come from books, I guess, but yeah,

642
00:52:55.599 --> 00:52:58.000
there's a lot. There's a lot of books on a

643
00:52:58.039 --> 00:53:02.039
stand up comedy that you can get hold of. I

644
00:53:02.119 --> 00:53:07.079
don't know which one I would necessarily recommend. I'm just

645
00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:16.239
looking down. All right, there's a Woody Ellen, but it's

646
00:53:16.400 --> 00:53:20.159
it's a stand up comic, Okay, so I can't figu out.

647
00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:21.840
I'm going to put Richard Pryor in because I just

648
00:53:21.840 --> 00:53:36.280
want to see what the if it's censored rich Prior Okay,

649
00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:38.360
pass I spell his name right, it would be better.

650
00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:47.280
Here we go, right, Oh, it's all of his films

651
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:52.599
from eighty to ninety one and blu Ray. Richard Pryor

652
00:53:52.599 --> 00:53:58.000
is also whoa. There's a book about him called Prior Convictions,

653
00:53:59.039 --> 00:54:09.079
another book called Becoming Richard Pryor. Okay, he did. I

654
00:54:09.159 --> 00:54:12.119
still it's really childish. But there's a movie that he

655
00:54:12.159 --> 00:54:17.960
did and he's I think it's called The Toy and

656
00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:22.679
he's like looking after this little kid who's rich and

657
00:54:23.519 --> 00:54:25.840
I think he's kind of like the kid's toy, just

658
00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:27.599
just to do what the kid wants him to do.

659
00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:34.239
And he gets introduced to this little kid and so

660
00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:38.000
this is mister Pryor whatever his name was in the

661
00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:43.280
movie and said welcome and like you to meet your

662
00:54:43.320 --> 00:54:51.480
new boss, Master Bates. Now I saw that when I

663
00:54:51.559 --> 00:54:58.480
was what probably about fourteen thirteen, and I'm still laughing

664
00:54:58.639 --> 00:55:02.639
because I'm so child oldish. I still find it hilarious.

665
00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:08.559
It's weird of it. So yeah, that's my answer to

666
00:55:08.599 --> 00:55:18.519
your question, dev is try if you can find a

667
00:55:20.199 --> 00:55:28.599
place where you can maybe do some training, go to

668
00:55:28.679 --> 00:55:32.559
a course, a stand up comedy course, and dell include

669
00:55:32.559 --> 00:55:36.559
things like writing performance, how to hold a microphone, how

670
00:55:36.639 --> 00:55:39.639
far to have the microphone away from your from your mouth,

671
00:55:40.440 --> 00:55:44.079
where to look when you're on stage. I guess just

672
00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:48.880
you know things, all the things that I still don't

673
00:55:48.920 --> 00:55:54.519
know how to do. So thanks for that's a Maria Hijason.

674
00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:57.519
On a recent recording, you mentioned that you might need

675
00:55:57.800 --> 00:56:05.199
new glasses calls soon. Yep, yep, definitely. Would you have

676
00:56:05.320 --> 00:56:08.719
to be bifocal? Would they have to be by vocal

677
00:56:08.880 --> 00:56:13.360
or very focal? Have you ever worn contact lenses or

678
00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:19.679
it's something you consider doing? Thank you well, thanks Maria.

679
00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:24.760
I'll answer the first the second question first, No, and

680
00:56:24.880 --> 00:56:30.199
no and no and no and no contact lenses. No.

681
00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:36.280
I could know, It's not something I would do. I

682
00:56:36.360 --> 00:56:39.159
know I understand why people do do it, especially like

683
00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:45.159
younger people. Not everyone likes glasses and to wearing glasses,

684
00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:46.840
and it can get in a way, you know, it

685
00:56:46.920 --> 00:56:50.880
gets steamed up at times and they get dirty and

686
00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:57.719
depending on what you're doing. I mean, I'm a messy eater.

687
00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:03.679
But contact lenses, no, I don't know. It doesn't really

688
00:57:03.719 --> 00:57:11.760
appeal to me. Never has. As far as bifocals or

689
00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:15.000
verier focals, I'm not quite sure what very a focal

690
00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:19.880
is by focal, I think it's I think I have

691
00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:22.280
been very a focal is that where like the different

692
00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:27.000
parts kind of you can't see, but that yeah, you

693
00:57:27.039 --> 00:57:31.320
can see because the glasses. But my glass at the moment,

694
00:57:32.519 --> 00:57:36.159
the bottom part is for reading, and the middle part

695
00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:42.920
is for like distance, and supposedly the you know, the

696
00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:47.079
highest part is for like computer work, but generally it's

697
00:57:47.119 --> 00:57:49.760
the bottom parts for reading. And it's not big enough

698
00:57:49.800 --> 00:57:58.239
because I need separate reading glasses. And maybe that's what

699
00:57:58.360 --> 00:58:07.039
the very focal is. I used to have trifocals where

700
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:09.639
I this is years ago when I was in the

701
00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:16.880
call center, and was it bifocals, Yeah, but they were

702
00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:23.760
almost that had like a line across so the I

703
00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:28.360
could read again read at the bottom. The middle was

704
00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:32.960
for distance, and it was really weird. It's very it

705
00:58:33.000 --> 00:58:36.880
felt very strange because I felt like I was taller

706
00:58:40.360 --> 00:58:45.119
than I would normally be because instead of like the distance,

707
00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:48.239
you know, it brings it closer, doesn't it. But the

708
00:58:48.280 --> 00:58:52.280
bottom part was pushing things further away for some reason.

709
00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:56.719
So I felt really tall, which was nice, but I felt,

710
00:58:56.760 --> 00:58:59.639
you know, a bit stumbling a bit. I tripped over

711
00:58:59.679 --> 00:59:04.000
a couple of times, and I realized my shoelaces is

712
00:59:04.000 --> 00:59:06.679
what I'm done. No, I didn't. That was weird, but yeah,

713
00:59:06.760 --> 00:59:12.840
I think no, no contact lenses. But also no longer

714
00:59:12.960 --> 00:59:16.440
am I going to get any kind of bifocals. I'm

715
00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:20.880
going to stick to from now on. At least, I'm

716
00:59:20.880 --> 00:59:24.880
going to stick to glasses for read for reading, separate

717
00:59:25.840 --> 00:59:29.159
glasses for everyday use for distance, which I definitely need

718
00:59:30.039 --> 00:59:33.840
more than anything else, and maybe try and get some

719
00:59:33.960 --> 00:59:40.559
glasses for computer use. To three separate things. I do

720
00:59:40.840 --> 00:59:48.239
have anti glare. I think they're supposed to be anti glare,

721
00:59:48.239 --> 00:59:52.039
but I do, you know, video myself, and they do glare,

722
00:59:52.119 --> 00:59:56.000
so I'm not sure what that's about. They stare right

723
00:59:56.079 --> 01:00:02.800
at me, but the other act to light active active

724
01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:05.320
light or whatever, so they go they turn into kind

725
01:00:05.320 --> 01:00:10.920
of shades when I'm outside in the sunlight. That's something

726
01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:15.760
that I had because in my family we've got macro

727
01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:23.239
degeneration is kind of like a hereditary thing, and a

728
01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:31.880
few years back, my what's it opticians said yeah, the

729
01:00:31.920 --> 01:00:33.840
best thing to do, because he looked at the back

730
01:00:33.880 --> 01:00:37.519
of my eyes. He said, well, potentially the beginnings of that.

731
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:42.679
You need to just protect your eyes when you're outside.

732
01:00:42.920 --> 01:00:46.199
So that's what I do. And he said, but you

733
01:00:46.239 --> 01:00:49.639
can wear sunshades. I said, yeah, but I need glasses,

734
01:00:50.639 --> 01:00:53.159
so i'd have to get the sunshades in my prescription,

735
01:00:55.079 --> 01:00:58.880
so it'd be easier just to get the them shade,

736
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:04.519
you know, to shade on their own. Yeah, I'm going

737
01:01:04.519 --> 01:01:07.440
to get some soon, maybe not for Christmas, but I

738
01:01:07.519 --> 01:01:10.280
will eventually want to get things sorted out. I've got

739
01:01:10.320 --> 01:01:12.320
a few bits going on, so once I get everything

740
01:01:12.440 --> 01:01:17.159
sorted out, I'm going to get myself some glasses and

741
01:01:17.199 --> 01:01:23.920
that'll be it. So that'd be good. Hope asks, how

742
01:01:23.960 --> 01:01:31.880
did you end up adopting Andre? Well, I didn't want

743
01:01:33.000 --> 01:01:36.719
a ferret. That was a good way to start to

744
01:01:36.800 --> 01:01:40.880
start my story about the one of the loves of

745
01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:46.760
my life, which was still is. Actually I love that

746
01:01:46.800 --> 01:01:54.760
little boy. I will love him forever. My Luke downstairs

747
01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:59.679
had a ferret. When I moved in, he had a ferret,

748
01:01:59.719 --> 01:02:03.119
and I was like, okay. First of all, I was

749
01:02:03.239 --> 01:02:06.119
very a little bit scared, very a little bit a

750
01:02:06.119 --> 01:02:13.199
little bit very scared because I just didn't really know

751
01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:16.760
what to do with it. It moved very quick and

752
01:02:16.960 --> 01:02:22.519
very sharp teeth, and he was a bit which put

753
01:02:22.559 --> 01:02:26.559
me off. I think it's I think it might be thundering.

754
01:02:27.559 --> 01:02:30.719
So it put me off, okay, because I didn't want that.

755
01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:32.639
I didn't want something that was going to be biting

756
01:02:32.760 --> 01:02:35.519
people who came around. Not that I get a lot

757
01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:38.599
of people visiting, but I didn't want to be bitten myself.

758
01:02:39.480 --> 01:02:44.320
He found it funny it'd let l was the name

759
01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:46.840
of the ferry. He'd well, it's a pole cat, but

760
01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:50.320
he'd let him bite him and he just didn't care.

761
01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:55.920
He bit me once, like really bit me on the

762
01:02:57.239 --> 01:03:00.719
on my arm. And what it's to do is to

763
01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:05.800
do like the crocodile role. It's not good and it

764
01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:08.280
really hurt. I left the mark on there for weeks.

765
01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:13.239
This was early on my time living there, so I

766
01:03:13.320 --> 01:03:16.320
thought no because I considered because I wanted to get

767
01:03:16.320 --> 01:03:20.960
a dog, and he said, oh, you could get a ferry.

768
01:03:21.039 --> 01:03:24.519
I said, no, you're right, and I was going to

769
01:03:24.519 --> 01:03:27.960
get a dog. And then the dog that I went

770
01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:32.000
and visited didn't like me a bit like Vinny. Just

771
01:03:32.719 --> 01:03:36.599
wasn't interested at all, and as a puppy, but it

772
01:03:36.679 --> 01:03:39.039
was in a like a shelter, you know, an animal place,

773
01:03:39.840 --> 01:03:49.000
and I just like, I want my feeling, my theory,

774
01:03:49.199 --> 01:03:52.559
my idea if I ever got a dog of my own,

775
01:03:52.599 --> 01:03:56.400
would be to go and visit that dog, and maybe

776
01:03:56.480 --> 01:03:59.920
there's like six dogs and one comes up to me

777
01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:04.559
and chooses me. That's what I wanted. I wanted a

778
01:04:04.559 --> 01:04:08.639
dog to choose me. It didn't happen, so I kind

779
01:04:08.679 --> 01:04:13.679
of I visited twice, still didn't really fill any connection

780
01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:17.159
with the dog. So I decided not to get that dog.

781
01:04:18.480 --> 01:04:20.679
And they kept saying, they calling me, well, we've got

782
01:04:20.679 --> 01:04:22.840
other people that want to take it. I just do

783
01:04:22.960 --> 01:04:26.880
that then, because it just didn't feel a beautiful little dog.

784
01:04:26.920 --> 01:04:32.000
But it just just didn't seem like the dog liked

785
01:04:32.039 --> 01:04:37.800
me a bit like Finny. He doesn't seem to like me.

786
01:04:39.480 --> 01:04:41.599
I think he loves me, but he doesn't like me,

787
01:04:41.760 --> 01:04:49.280
I think sometimes. And so I didn't get an animality.

788
01:04:49.400 --> 01:04:53.559
End I didn't get a pet. And then around the

789
01:04:53.639 --> 01:04:59.199
November time, might be in October November ish, I normally

790
01:04:59.239 --> 01:05:02.440
say November. I don't know. And this is two thy fifteen,

791
01:05:04.760 --> 01:05:11.000
Luke says to me, Ah, I said yeah. He said,

792
01:05:11.079 --> 01:05:19.639
my friend who breathes ferrets has got two ferrets going

793
01:05:21.039 --> 01:05:27.159
needing new homes. And I said yeah. He said, are

794
01:05:27.159 --> 01:05:30.079
you interested in getting a ferret? Now?

795
01:05:31.199 --> 01:05:31.440
These?

796
01:05:31.840 --> 01:05:35.960
Well you might not know this. Andre was related to L.

797
01:05:36.159 --> 01:05:43.320
So L was Andre's uncle, like blood blood relative, because

798
01:05:43.320 --> 01:05:45.639
he had got L from there as well, from that

799
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:51.079
same friend, like a couple few years earlier, so they

800
01:05:51.119 --> 01:05:58.239
were related. Anyway, I thought, yeah, maybe I will. But

801
01:05:58.280 --> 01:06:00.880
then I thought, you know, they did stink a bit.

802
01:06:02.360 --> 01:06:06.320
I personally loved the smell of Andre, but I know

803
01:06:06.360 --> 01:06:11.360
not everybody is into that kind of stinky stink. I

804
01:06:11.400 --> 01:06:14.480
think he's I mean, he didn't always smell good because

805
01:06:14.480 --> 01:06:18.880
they are kind of a bit skunky at times. Anyway,

806
01:06:20.280 --> 01:06:24.719
I thought about it. I thought yes, no, yes, no,

807
01:06:25.320 --> 01:06:30.199
And then I thought no, no, I've got a brand

808
01:06:30.199 --> 01:06:32.639
new carpet. It's only been in there for a few months,

809
01:06:33.920 --> 01:06:40.480
the flats looking good. I don't want it ruined. Well.

810
01:06:41.760 --> 01:06:46.519
I got a bit interrupted then because Phinnis started barking,

811
01:06:46.599 --> 01:06:49.719
and I couldn't figure out why he was barking. And

812
01:06:49.760 --> 01:06:56.559
then I heard some thunder. Now we've had thunder before.

813
01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:01.760
I don't mean, you know, in history, but you know,

814
01:07:01.800 --> 01:07:08.480
since I've had Finny, there's been thunder. And normally he

815
01:07:08.559 --> 01:07:13.880
doesn't seem to be too bothered. But it did. I

816
01:07:13.920 --> 01:07:16.559
fit norwally. You know, maybe there'd be the TV would beyond,

817
01:07:16.679 --> 01:07:19.079
so it kind of cover it up a little bit,

818
01:07:21.480 --> 01:07:25.239
but yeah, it was. He didn't like it. The only

819
01:07:25.320 --> 01:07:31.159
other time I've seen him really disturbed by anything outside,

820
01:07:31.280 --> 01:07:35.000
you know, is fireworks. Once we was out at night

821
01:07:35.039 --> 01:07:38.480
and the fireworks were going off and he pulled me home,

822
01:07:38.840 --> 01:07:41.920
so we didn't like that. Another time he didn't like

823
01:07:42.119 --> 01:07:46.480
the aircraft going over to air display, because there was

824
01:07:46.559 --> 01:07:49.880
lots that he didn't like that. Accept's very noisy, and

825
01:07:50.239 --> 01:07:52.920
the air bloe in the other day, last week or

826
01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:56.039
whenever it was he pulled me home from that. He

827
01:07:56.079 --> 01:08:00.880
didn't didn't like that. Most things don't bother him, but

828
01:08:02.519 --> 01:08:06.880
just springs from the sky generally. I said to him,

829
01:08:06.920 --> 01:08:10.039
just don't look up, and he told me I was

830
01:08:10.079 --> 01:08:13.679
being silly. I haven't got to look up to hear

831
01:08:13.719 --> 01:08:21.520
the thunder. Have I, I said, all right, wow, so yeah, Andre.

832
01:08:21.960 --> 01:08:25.399
So at this point I'm thinking I don't want I'm

833
01:08:25.399 --> 01:08:27.119
thinking I don't want someone who's going to bite me.

834
01:08:28.399 --> 01:08:33.600
It's going to make a mess everywhere. And no, I

835
01:08:33.680 --> 01:08:39.800
really decided it was a firm negative, like no, no,

836
01:08:39.960 --> 01:08:43.680
not don't want one. I love l and I did.

837
01:08:44.119 --> 01:08:46.119
I mean, he was pretty good with me, as long

838
01:08:46.159 --> 01:08:49.239
as I remember to wear a long sleeved shirt or

839
01:08:49.479 --> 01:08:52.239
T shirt because if I kept off, God, they'd have

840
01:08:52.279 --> 01:08:55.600
a little nibble. But he was really it was a

841
01:08:55.680 --> 01:09:01.279
very loving ferrit you know, very cuddly. But at the

842
01:09:01.319 --> 01:09:03.640
same time, you know he'd like to lit'tle bite every

843
01:09:03.680 --> 01:09:09.279
now and then a little snack, treat himself to a

844
01:09:09.279 --> 01:09:15.399
bit of human So and one hundred percent Nope, don't

845
01:09:15.399 --> 01:09:18.479
want one. So I'm just like going about my life

846
01:09:18.600 --> 01:09:21.680
as I do. And I'm walking home. I don't know

847
01:09:21.720 --> 01:09:25.880
where i'd been, probably been to town or something, or

848
01:09:25.880 --> 01:09:29.760
to the garage. And I'm coming back and I see

849
01:09:29.800 --> 01:09:36.920
this bloke holding he's in looking in the back of

850
01:09:36.960 --> 01:09:42.119
a car and he's holding a cage. Then I see

851
01:09:42.239 --> 01:09:45.000
and this is outside the front of my building. And

852
01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:47.399
then I see Luke come out and he waves to

853
01:09:47.479 --> 01:09:51.560
me and he says, look, look there, these are the

854
01:09:51.600 --> 01:09:55.039
two ferrets, are two baby ferrets. I said, oh okay,

855
01:09:55.640 --> 01:09:57.199
and he said, come and have a look at them.

856
01:09:57.680 --> 01:10:00.000
He was so excited that That's one of the things

857
01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:04.840
about Luke. When he was excited, he brightened up so much.

858
01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:10.159
It was very contagious. So I kind of got very

859
01:10:10.199 --> 01:10:12.920
intrigued and I was excited as well to sort of

860
01:10:14.239 --> 01:10:19.640
have a look. With no intention I take him one on.

861
01:10:20.359 --> 01:10:22.359
I didn't want to take it. And bearing in mind

862
01:10:22.399 --> 01:10:25.680
the bloke didn't want any money. He wasn't doing it

863
01:10:25.680 --> 01:10:30.960
for money. He just loved ferrets. So there was two ferrets.

864
01:10:31.079 --> 01:10:33.800
One of them, you know, it was Andre. One of

865
01:10:33.800 --> 01:10:37.159
them was his brother, and one of them had to

866
01:10:37.239 --> 01:10:42.000
be that. He hadn't decided which one was already been

867
01:10:43.520 --> 01:10:47.560
adopted by someone else. But he was going to deliver

868
01:10:47.720 --> 01:10:53.159
that ferret I think a few days afterwards, because he

869
01:10:53.239 --> 01:10:55.560
had to get a cage and stuff for it. This

870
01:10:55.640 --> 01:11:03.680
bloke who was also a friend of Luke's. Instead of

871
01:11:03.760 --> 01:11:13.560
running around on the floor, I fell in love with Andre.

872
01:11:16.479 --> 01:11:20.880
I fell in love with him. See that that what

873
01:11:21.000 --> 01:11:24.800
I wanted to happen to me is, you know, like

874
01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:26.920
a dog wanting to I wanted a dog to fall

875
01:11:26.960 --> 01:11:28.840
in love with me and to come up to me

876
01:11:28.960 --> 01:11:35.159
and like just have that attachment. The reverse happened with Andre.

877
01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:40.960
I absolutely fell head over heels in love with that

878
01:11:41.039 --> 01:11:45.119
little boy in a way that I'm really so surprised about,

879
01:11:46.119 --> 01:11:49.760
because you know, if you just said to me a

880
01:11:49.800 --> 01:11:52.359
few years back before that, like one day, you're going

881
01:11:52.439 --> 01:11:56.199
to have a ferret running around your home, I would

882
01:11:56.239 --> 01:11:59.920
have I wouldn't have believed them, would I just laughed.

883
01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:03.840
It's like, no way. To me, a fairy was like

884
01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:08.199
a rat, you know, there was no difference. There's a

885
01:12:08.239 --> 01:12:10.600
big difference. But at the time I didn't really know.

886
01:12:10.720 --> 01:12:13.800
I just it was just some something that was very weak,

887
01:12:14.319 --> 01:12:20.319
very weakly, whibbly wobbly, moved very quickly and bit people.

888
01:12:20.359 --> 01:12:21.920
And I didn't want to I didn't want to know.

889
01:12:26.119 --> 01:12:27.800
At this time, I knew a little bit more about

890
01:12:27.800 --> 01:12:30.760
ferrets because I'd spent time with l and he used

891
01:12:30.800 --> 01:12:32.720
to come up here and it was as good as gold,

892
01:12:33.359 --> 01:12:37.960
apart from the occasional snack out of my arm. And

893
01:12:41.640 --> 01:12:51.279
so Vinny certainly, Vinnie Andre absolutely hated me. I picked

894
01:12:51.319 --> 01:12:54.680
him up and he bit me every opportunity. He bit

895
01:12:54.800 --> 01:12:58.039
me just on that occasion, he really grabbed me and

896
01:12:58.119 --> 01:13:01.640
his raisor teeth. Remember it is tiny at this point.

897
01:13:02.039 --> 01:13:03.920
You could like fit him in a pole my hand.

898
01:13:04.960 --> 01:13:10.600
And there's videos, there's probably pictures on Facebook, but there's

899
01:13:10.640 --> 01:13:13.720
loads of videos of him on my YouTube channel. Andre

900
01:13:15.039 --> 01:13:22.560
and I had to hold him. That the bloke who

901
01:13:22.760 --> 01:13:25.640
would brought the two around, he showed me how to

902
01:13:25.760 --> 01:13:30.520
handle the baby, and so did Luke. So there's a

903
01:13:30.560 --> 01:13:33.640
certain way you basically put your finger and thumb around

904
01:13:33.640 --> 01:13:37.199
the neck. Because the neck so tiny, you're not choking it.

905
01:13:37.199 --> 01:13:41.199
It's just basically there's a lot of loose, loose skin there.

906
01:13:41.800 --> 01:13:45.439
It just means that they can't maneuver their mouth to

907
01:13:45.520 --> 01:13:51.680
bite you. Another thing is it was just something that

908
01:13:52.279 --> 01:13:58.119
parents do to ferrets, is they pick him up by

909
01:13:58.119 --> 01:14:01.279
their neck so it doesn't hurt them the back of

910
01:14:01.319 --> 01:14:06.920
the neck, the skin, but they just completely stay still.

911
01:14:07.479 --> 01:14:10.319
They stop being naughty as soon as that happens. Or

912
01:14:10.399 --> 01:14:12.920
you can drag them back like that and they just

913
01:14:12.960 --> 01:14:17.039
stay still. So if it doesn't hurt them, but it

914
01:14:17.079 --> 01:14:23.359
makes them be passive, they give up. They kind of

915
01:14:25.319 --> 01:14:28.920
you know. So that's kind of something I learned to do,

916
01:14:29.880 --> 01:14:31.720
but the rest of it was just not made up

917
01:14:31.720 --> 01:14:34.359
as I went along. But Luke come taught me quite

918
01:14:34.399 --> 01:14:42.960
a bit I suppose as well. Yeah yeah, And I

919
01:14:43.479 --> 01:14:46.439
went from no way in the world or on those

920
01:14:46.439 --> 01:14:48.359
so many things in my flat.

921
01:14:51.039 --> 01:14:51.239
Too.

922
01:14:53.159 --> 01:14:56.760
I've never wanted anything as much as I ever did

923
01:14:56.840 --> 01:14:59.840
in my life. That's probably a bit of an exaggeration.

924
01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:04.640
I really like the other one had no interest in

925
01:15:06.560 --> 01:15:09.640
and it was just as cute as I'm sure every

926
01:15:09.680 --> 01:15:12.239
baby ferret is just as cute as each other. But

927
01:15:12.239 --> 01:15:15.479
there was something about Andre I don't know what it was.

928
01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:18.199
There was something about him, something about his little face

929
01:15:18.239 --> 01:15:21.920
and his little mask that he had, like almost like

930
01:15:22.000 --> 01:15:25.039
he had an eye mask on him, like he was

931
01:15:25.119 --> 01:15:30.079
a highway dick Turpin or you know, something like that

932
01:15:31.640 --> 01:15:34.960
bank robber. Maybe maybe not, but yeah, it's just cute.

933
01:15:35.039 --> 01:15:44.359
He's facial features, and I had to have him. There

934
01:15:44.399 --> 01:15:48.039
was no option. In fact, I think the man said

935
01:15:48.039 --> 01:15:50.000
that he was going to give him to the other bloke,

936
01:15:53.039 --> 01:15:57.119
and Luke said he won't nobally, he won't know which one.

937
01:15:57.520 --> 01:16:00.880
He just knows he's going to get one. So I

938
01:16:00.920 --> 01:16:07.399
wouldn't have took the other one. However, weird that sounds Andre.

939
01:16:07.720 --> 01:16:11.000
It was him. It wasn't because Andre was a ferret

940
01:16:11.039 --> 01:16:15.079
that I wanted him. I didn't want a ferret. I

941
01:16:15.079 --> 01:16:15.720
wanted Andre.

942
01:16:16.159 --> 01:16:16.439
He was.

943
01:16:16.479 --> 01:16:18.119
I just fell in love with him. He's just sung

944
01:16:18.239 --> 01:16:24.279
about him. And so for the first two weeks I

945
01:16:24.359 --> 01:16:28.760
had him, and all he did was bite me. But

946
01:16:28.800 --> 01:16:34.840
I continue to pick him up every single opportunity, cuddle him.

947
01:16:35.199 --> 01:16:38.000
And he never bit me on the face. So I

948
01:16:38.000 --> 01:16:40.600
could literally put my face right up to his. He's

949
01:16:40.600 --> 01:16:43.279
probably scared, to be fair, imagine seeing my face so

950
01:16:43.399 --> 01:16:47.039
close up, probably scared the hell out of him. But

951
01:16:47.800 --> 01:16:50.319
he never bit me on the face. It's always my

952
01:16:50.359 --> 01:16:57.399
fingers if he could. And after like a couple of weeks,

953
01:16:59.359 --> 01:17:01.680
by after old destroyed loads of times. But I was

954
01:17:01.680 --> 01:17:05.359
just sitting down on the Saturday night watching the box

955
01:17:05.439 --> 01:17:10.880
in and he climbed up my leg and I was

956
01:17:10.880 --> 01:17:13.239
went dressing gown and he climbed up my left sleeve

957
01:17:13.279 --> 01:17:17.000
of my dressing gown and went to sleep. And from

958
01:17:17.039 --> 01:17:22.000
then on he was good as gold. We got on perfect.

959
01:17:23.479 --> 01:17:28.640
It never bit me again, not on purpose. He used

960
01:17:28.640 --> 01:17:31.159
to bite me when we played, when we had play fights,

961
01:17:31.279 --> 01:17:34.720
he bite me. Sometimes you'd get very carried away, but

962
01:17:34.760 --> 01:17:39.760
all I had to say was gentle and it stopped.

963
01:17:39.880 --> 01:17:42.000
So if he bit me too hard, I say gentle,

964
01:17:42.159 --> 01:17:47.920
it just releases jaws. So his teeth were just kind

965
01:17:47.960 --> 01:17:55.560
of touching my skin. We communicated quite well, which is

966
01:17:55.560 --> 01:18:02.039
a bit weird, I think. But yeah, I think perhaps

967
01:18:02.119 --> 01:18:05.880
I should have got I should have got another ferret. Maybe.

968
01:18:06.880 --> 01:18:10.760
But you know what, Vinnie came into my life. And

969
01:18:11.439 --> 01:18:16.199
you know, I'll be honest. When I lost Andre, it

970
01:18:16.239 --> 01:18:19.399
was it was too much. I mean, I don't I

971
01:18:20.239 --> 01:18:24.800
didn't really believe that I could be so attached to

972
01:18:27.640 --> 01:18:35.319
a little thing like that, but I was. And you know,

973
01:18:35.479 --> 01:18:37.039
my vow and a lot of people do that is

974
01:18:37.079 --> 01:18:39.399
that they say I'll never get I never get another pet,

975
01:18:39.640 --> 01:18:44.640
that's it. And I definitely meant that I wasn't going

976
01:18:44.720 --> 01:18:46.920
to get anything, not a dog, not a cat, anything,

977
01:18:47.640 --> 01:18:49.720
not to have a cat anyway, but not up here

978
01:18:50.199 --> 01:19:00.520
because I'm on the first floor. The cat can't get out, however,

979
01:19:01.239 --> 01:19:04.399
you know. So this was in the summer two thousand

980
01:19:04.479 --> 01:19:16.439
and one, and then two thousand and two, November or December,

981
01:19:18.840 --> 01:19:23.279
Vinnie ran through my legs as I answered the door

982
01:19:23.319 --> 01:19:27.560
to Luke. He was laughing and this little thing ran

983
01:19:27.600 --> 01:19:31.000
through and LOGI was there like looking at me, and

984
01:19:31.079 --> 01:19:33.880
he ran in as well. It's like, what the heck

985
01:19:34.079 --> 01:19:39.039
is LOGI chasing? I thought for a second, I thought

986
01:19:39.039 --> 01:19:43.680
he'd got another Ferret, and it wasn't. It was Vinny.

987
01:19:43.840 --> 01:19:46.840
But Vinnie was ten months old, so he was He

988
01:19:46.920 --> 01:19:49.319
wasn't a hugely smaller than he is now, but he

989
01:19:49.399 --> 01:19:54.159
was smaller. And I mean I couldn't see him. He

990
01:19:54.239 --> 01:19:59.560
was moving so quick. And you know, that's how I

991
01:19:59.640 --> 01:20:02.399
ended up him. But with Andre, that's how I ended

992
01:20:02.479 --> 01:20:06.479
up with him. It was just fall in love situation

993
01:20:08.640 --> 01:20:12.680
and no matter how you know, the ending wasn't good,

994
01:20:12.760 --> 01:20:17.800
and I just it was hard. But he did bring

995
01:20:17.840 --> 01:20:21.800
a lot of pleasure into my life. He made me

996
01:20:21.880 --> 01:20:31.600
laugh a lot, and yeah, I actually adored him, adored him,

997
01:20:31.880 --> 01:20:33.760
And I know that There's a couple of people over

998
01:20:33.760 --> 01:20:37.359
the years, as I've mentioned, like saying why why does

999
01:20:37.399 --> 01:20:40.159
he not to me? But like on the maybe on

1000
01:20:40.199 --> 01:20:43.199
a Facebook group or on a Facebook page, why does

1001
01:20:43.239 --> 01:20:45.640
he keep talking about Andre? He's been gone for ages.

1002
01:20:47.960 --> 01:20:50.359
That's why it is the same reason I talk about

1003
01:20:50.359 --> 01:20:56.039
my men, and the same reason I'm probably still going

1004
01:20:56.119 --> 01:20:59.880
to be talking about Uncle's sausages in ten years time.

1005
01:21:00.760 --> 01:21:05.640
The reason I'm still talking about Luke because there were

1006
01:21:05.680 --> 01:21:11.560
big parts of my life and that doesn't change just

1007
01:21:11.600 --> 01:21:16.600
because they're no longer here is you know, they're not.

1008
01:21:16.680 --> 01:21:18.079
I mean, they're no longer a big part of my

1009
01:21:18.119 --> 01:21:23.079
life day to day. But I think once someone has

1010
01:21:23.239 --> 01:21:30.880
that makes that impact. I mean, Uncle's sausages made his

1011
01:21:30.920 --> 01:21:33.520
impact more really over the last year, even though I've

1012
01:21:33.560 --> 01:21:36.399
known him for ten years, and especially more when he

1013
01:21:36.479 --> 01:21:39.680
got unwell. I mean, that period that we shared together

1014
01:21:39.880 --> 01:21:46.119
is something that's kind of a bit precious really, that

1015
01:21:46.199 --> 01:21:51.239
whole you know, situation, and there's no way I could

1016
01:21:51.239 --> 01:21:56.000
ever forget that. And yeah, so he's always going to

1017
01:21:56.039 --> 01:22:04.479
be remembered by me. I hope, I hope. And even

1018
01:22:04.520 --> 01:22:10.000
if he's not, the memories recorded it's onto, you know

1019
01:22:10.000 --> 01:22:12.640
what I mean, it's me talking about it. So even

1020
01:22:12.680 --> 01:22:17.079
if in thirty years time, perhaps for whatever reason, I

1021
01:22:17.119 --> 01:22:22.560
don't have the actual memory, I can listen back and

1022
01:22:22.680 --> 01:22:30.079
hear about it and think, oh, he sounds nice. Who's

1023
01:22:30.079 --> 01:22:34.920
this bloke that's talking? Why has he got such a

1024
01:22:34.920 --> 01:22:40.159
squeaky voice? So yeah, that's how I got Andre. Thank

1025
01:22:40.159 --> 01:22:44.039
you for that. Rich asks when it's Finny's birthday. It's

1026
01:22:44.159 --> 01:22:51.319
the end of February, so you would have been born

1027
01:22:51.439 --> 01:22:58.520
in two thousand and yeah, end of yeah, end of

1028
01:22:58.560 --> 01:23:05.600
February two thousand and twenty three, No, twenty two, So

1029
01:23:05.800 --> 01:23:10.239
end of February twenty twenty two was when he was born.

1030
01:23:11.800 --> 01:23:16.079
The exact date I used to have. I could probably

1031
01:23:16.119 --> 01:23:19.760
get it because I used to have a picture with

1032
01:23:19.840 --> 01:23:24.039
a date on where he was literally a baby, you know,

1033
01:23:24.159 --> 01:23:29.159
like a it looked like a I don't know, like

1034
01:23:29.479 --> 01:23:35.880
pink little turn it or something. But yeah, so end

1035
01:23:35.880 --> 01:23:42.680
of February, he'll be foorn next year. Robin asks me,

1036
01:23:42.840 --> 01:23:46.720
have you ever been inside Hampton Court Palace. I'd love

1037
01:23:46.800 --> 01:23:52.560
to visit there. First of all, I thought I don't know,

1038
01:23:53.079 --> 01:23:58.840
But now I do know. Hampton Court Palace. I'm pretty

1039
01:23:58.840 --> 01:24:01.720
sure it's got a zoo. Kay. I don't know why,

1040
01:24:02.760 --> 01:24:09.119
but I have feeling there's a zoo there. Hampton Court.

1041
01:24:10.800 --> 01:24:30.840
Palace zoo, uh hampter then Hampton Court mans first, right,

1042
01:24:31.000 --> 01:24:31.920
it doesn't look.

1043
01:24:33.600 --> 01:24:44.319
This Hampton Court beasts. Okay, yeah, there is is there. Okay,

1044
01:24:45.199 --> 01:24:51.399
does I'm going to change it to does have a zoo.

1045
01:24:57.279 --> 01:25:00.279
Hampton Court Palace does not have a traditional zoo, but

1046
01:25:00.399 --> 01:25:05.159
it's Magic Garden adventure playground features mythical beasts. That's what

1047
01:25:05.960 --> 01:25:07.439
I visited when I was a kid. I thought they

1048
01:25:07.479 --> 01:25:12.399
were real animals. Wow, no wonder I was able to

1049
01:25:13.399 --> 01:25:20.079
kiss a tiger on the lips, all that bragging for

1050
01:25:20.239 --> 01:25:24.399
years afterwards, thinking I was more invincible than tiles and

1051
01:25:25.920 --> 01:25:31.239
when clear I wasn't. It wasn't they wasn't they wasn't. Yeah,

1052
01:25:31.279 --> 01:25:35.319
I have been there, even though I clearly don't know

1053
01:25:35.359 --> 01:25:39.319
where it is, but I have been there. Then he

1054
01:25:39.399 --> 01:25:45.199
started barking again the thunder, and yeah, I have been there.

1055
01:25:45.199 --> 01:25:49.079
It's a long, long, long long time ago, like decades ago,

1056
01:25:49.680 --> 01:25:52.920
so I don't really remember it. But I've been to

1057
01:25:53.399 --> 01:25:58.640
all the main tourist attractions, either when I was very

1058
01:25:58.760 --> 01:26:01.000
young or when I was kind of in my twenties.

1059
01:26:02.479 --> 01:26:05.600
I including all the museums, met in Two Swords, Tower

1060
01:26:05.640 --> 01:26:10.239
of London, the Palace, that whole walk up to the

1061
01:26:10.359 --> 01:26:18.520
palace whatever that's called, the Zoo London Zoo, the library

1062
01:26:18.840 --> 01:26:20.319
at London Library or whatever.

1063
01:26:20.520 --> 01:26:21.000
So I've been.

1064
01:26:21.119 --> 01:26:25.600
So I'm pretty much everywhere, but not for a very

1065
01:26:25.840 --> 01:26:34.039
very long time. Kathleen asks, what's the best birthday present

1066
01:26:34.079 --> 01:26:39.560
you ever? Received. Well, technically I would say, I know

1067
01:26:39.600 --> 01:26:43.159
it's my birthday was three days ago. But your question, Kathleen,

1068
01:26:44.000 --> 01:26:46.600
that's the birth that's the best present I've ever had.

1069
01:26:47.159 --> 01:26:54.720
I don't know, really best birthday present. See, when I

1070
01:26:54.800 --> 01:26:56.840
was a kid, not nothing as an adult. But when

1071
01:26:56.880 --> 01:26:59.920
I was a kid, I enjoyed this year because I

1072
01:27:00.039 --> 01:27:02.960
got some payper gifts that was really lovely kind of

1073
01:27:04.399 --> 01:27:08.880
I almost felt like I was, I don't know, just

1074
01:27:09.479 --> 01:27:15.680
felt quite nice, felt very nice, I think as a kid.

1075
01:27:16.560 --> 01:27:30.880
As an adult, nothing I mean not nothing, but yeah,

1076
01:27:31.000 --> 01:27:33.760
nothing like particularly that I can think of off the

1077
01:27:33.840 --> 01:27:45.279
top of my head as a kid. Noah, nothing really

1078
01:27:45.359 --> 01:27:49.239
stands out because they're all. The thing is with my

1079
01:27:49.680 --> 01:27:53.359
dad and his wife, they were very generous when it

1080
01:27:53.439 --> 01:27:56.960
came to Christmas and birthdays. I'm not saying they weren't

1081
01:27:56.960 --> 01:27:58.800
the rest of the time, but they were very I

1082
01:27:58.880 --> 01:28:02.560
always got lots of pressing for birthdays and Christmases from

1083
01:28:02.560 --> 01:28:03.920
the age of seven to fifteen.

1084
01:28:05.199 --> 01:28:07.800
So it was.

1085
01:28:10.800 --> 01:28:14.439
Yeah, it was like every year. I mean, fifteen was

1086
01:28:14.640 --> 01:28:16.000
a bit of a slow one, but all the other

1087
01:28:16.119 --> 01:28:20.720
years it's you know, when the whole family was together. Yeah,

1088
01:28:21.359 --> 01:28:24.640
every year was good, you know, like Christmas as well.

1089
01:28:25.479 --> 01:28:29.560
I never there was never any disappointment. There was never like,

1090
01:28:29.720 --> 01:28:32.640
oh I didn't get enough presents, because I always got

1091
01:28:32.880 --> 01:28:39.600
more presence than I ever needed, you know. It was.

1092
01:28:40.279 --> 01:28:46.000
I was very, very fortunate, and the same as with birthdays.

1093
01:28:46.039 --> 01:28:52.079
I always got lots of presents and I liked all

1094
01:28:52.119 --> 01:28:55.960
of them. Really. I remember one year when I was

1095
01:28:56.640 --> 01:29:01.920
probably about ten, eleven, ten, I don't know, and I

1096
01:29:02.760 --> 01:29:06.439
had a video game so that was cool, like a

1097
01:29:07.199 --> 01:29:12.279
kind of First Space Invaders Asteroids kind of game that

1098
01:29:12.479 --> 01:29:17.640
was handheld, but a big old thing batteries. The batteries

1099
01:29:17.680 --> 01:29:20.800
were the size of a car. There was a big thing,

1100
01:29:20.960 --> 01:29:21.960
but it was loved it.

1101
01:29:23.039 --> 01:29:23.720
Do Do Do.

1102
01:29:25.640 --> 01:29:32.399
Do Do Do doo? Yeah, things like that. That was

1103
01:29:32.520 --> 01:29:36.680
nothing like how it sounded. But I can't think of

1104
01:29:36.880 --> 01:29:42.439
any particular presence that had off the top of my head.

1105
01:29:42.479 --> 01:29:45.880
That is, I'm not saying there wasn't any particular presence

1106
01:29:45.960 --> 01:29:49.199
that I liked most of all, and I'm trying to

1107
01:29:50.880 --> 01:29:55.279
The big presents really, I think were Christmas time, because

1108
01:29:55.279 --> 01:29:58.399
I got a couple of the two biggest presents I

1109
01:29:58.600 --> 01:30:05.840
remember at Christmas. Oh no, I got the best present

1110
01:30:05.960 --> 01:30:12.880
I ever got for my birthday was when I was seven.

1111
01:30:13.920 --> 01:30:15.680
I mean, it might have not been on my birthday.

1112
01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:18.079
It was around that time because we all got bike,

1113
01:30:18.479 --> 01:30:20.600
but it was a bike. I got a new my

1114
01:30:20.760 --> 01:30:25.000
first ever bike when I was seven, my seventh birthday,

1115
01:30:25.880 --> 01:30:28.479
and my dad taught me to ride, and he did

1116
01:30:28.520 --> 01:30:31.479
that whole thing where he's like holding onto the because

1117
01:30:31.479 --> 01:30:36.039
I had fallen off, and he put stabilizers on and

1118
01:30:37.960 --> 01:30:41.039
he kind of he said, I'm holding on. And he

1119
01:30:41.239 --> 01:30:46.600
was behind me and I was cycling, and I said,

1120
01:30:46.680 --> 01:30:50.159
you're still holding on. He said, yeah, he's still holding on.

1121
01:30:50.279 --> 01:30:54.199
He said, yeah, I'm still holding on. I'm thinking, why

1122
01:30:54.239 --> 01:30:56.920
are you doing such a soft voice. I said, he's

1123
01:30:56.920 --> 01:31:03.920
still holding what And I showed he's still holding on

1124
01:31:04.039 --> 01:31:06.000
and my phone rings, and he said, yeah, I'm still

1125
01:31:06.039 --> 01:31:11.439
holding on. And I'm thinking mobile phones aren't even invented

1126
01:31:11.520 --> 01:31:16.439
yet since nineteen seventy seven. This is really weird. One

1127
01:31:16.479 --> 01:31:20.439
if it's real and I look behind me and there's

1128
01:31:20.479 --> 01:31:27.319
nowhere to be seen. I'd cycled into a different town.

1129
01:31:28.319 --> 01:31:32.479
I've been gone for about six hours. Never really could

1130
01:31:32.600 --> 01:31:39.000
gauge time back then, So yeah, that's when I realized

1131
01:31:39.000 --> 01:31:42.720
I could cycle without him like holding on. I mean,

1132
01:31:43.560 --> 01:31:47.239
but I did have stabilizers. Stabilizers are good. I think

1133
01:31:47.279 --> 01:31:52.359
everyone should have stabilizers all the time. It just makes sense,

1134
01:31:52.439 --> 01:31:55.319
doesn't it, Because at least then you could just stop

1135
01:31:55.359 --> 01:31:57.640
your bike wherever you are and just leave it standing up.

1136
01:31:59.399 --> 01:32:05.399
There's no real not to have stabilizers. I remember seeing

1137
01:32:05.520 --> 01:32:08.319
someone years ago in a park having a go at

1138
01:32:08.359 --> 01:32:12.039
their kid because they had stabilizers, and like almost like

1139
01:32:12.159 --> 01:32:15.359
you can't have still have stabilizes, you're night now, and

1140
01:32:15.479 --> 01:32:21.119
me like give their kid a break, you know, what

1141
01:32:21.239 --> 01:32:21.760
does it matter?

1142
01:32:23.840 --> 01:32:31.000
Really? Right? Yeah?

1143
01:32:31.079 --> 01:32:35.520
The bike that was the best present birthday present I

1144
01:32:35.640 --> 01:32:41.000
got was that bike. I did get another bike at

1145
01:32:41.159 --> 01:32:43.920
Christmas quite a few years later, when I was about

1146
01:32:44.640 --> 01:32:52.560
thirteen and maybe fourteen thirteen something like that, and it

1147
01:32:52.640 --> 01:33:00.760
was a racer and earlier on, but probably about age ten, nine,

1148
01:33:01.000 --> 01:33:07.640
ten or maybe eleven even I got a telescope for Christmas.

1149
01:33:08.079 --> 01:33:09.800
I think it was Christmas. It might have been for

1150
01:33:09.920 --> 01:33:18.199
my birthday, It's possible. I don't remember exactly, but yeah,

1151
01:33:18.199 --> 01:33:24.000
I've got this telescope, really nice telescope. But yeah, so

1152
01:33:24.520 --> 01:33:27.159
I can't really would say I would go with the bike.

1153
01:33:27.600 --> 01:33:32.439
And it was a grifter I think, and it was

1154
01:33:32.479 --> 01:33:38.920
the first time I'd ever had a bike, And I

1155
01:33:39.000 --> 01:33:46.479
mean that was the best summer of my life. It

1156
01:33:46.720 --> 01:33:49.920
was there's no other summer. It wasn't about the heat.

1157
01:33:49.960 --> 01:33:51.960
It wasn't about the weather. You know, we may it

1158
01:33:52.079 --> 01:33:55.039
makes such a big deal, like all wasn't as hot

1159
01:33:55.039 --> 01:33:58.720
as it normally is or it's been too hot. When

1160
01:33:58.760 --> 01:34:03.720
I was a kid, I couldn't care at all if

1161
01:34:03.760 --> 01:34:07.880
it was raining or if it was sunny. That was

1162
01:34:08.000 --> 01:34:13.560
my first time with a family, like an actual family living.

1163
01:34:16.359 --> 01:34:18.720
The next year was good as well, but that was

1164
01:34:18.800 --> 01:34:24.680
the first year. The first summer was just nineteen seventy

1165
01:34:24.800 --> 01:34:27.520
seven when I was well, I was lee, I was

1166
01:34:27.840 --> 01:34:30.479
just before I was seven, but yeah, I was seven

1167
01:34:30.560 --> 01:34:36.039
in August. So that was the best summer of my

1168
01:34:36.159 --> 01:34:43.119
life or in my memory anyway. And the next year

1169
01:34:43.199 --> 01:34:47.680
was really good as well. So I basically seventy seven

1170
01:34:48.119 --> 01:34:51.239
seventy eight were the best summers that I ever had.

1171
01:34:53.279 --> 01:34:56.880
But seventy seven especially because we lived near the well,

1172
01:34:58.399 --> 01:35:02.680
we're lived near the beach as well, actually lived near

1173
01:35:02.720 --> 01:35:05.960
the beach in the big family house. But this was

1174
01:35:06.079 --> 01:35:09.479
like just up the road from the beach, a bit

1175
01:35:09.520 --> 01:35:12.880
of a walk but not too far. It was a

1176
01:35:13.000 --> 01:35:20.680
straight walk. Yeah, so that's what I would say for that.

1177
01:35:21.840 --> 01:35:24.960
The bike that was my favorite, the best person I

1178
01:35:25.039 --> 01:35:29.960
ever got, but technically not really the best present I

1179
01:35:30.039 --> 01:35:32.960
ever got was a family. If we're going to be

1180
01:35:33.039 --> 01:35:35.840
if I'm going to be sentimental, So we moved out

1181
01:35:35.840 --> 01:35:38.760
of the children's home and lived with my dad and

1182
01:35:38.840 --> 01:35:44.039
his new wife permanently the summer of nineteen seventy seven,

1183
01:35:46.359 --> 01:35:52.399
possibly June, maybe July. It was back in them days.

1184
01:35:53.439 --> 01:35:55.479
A couple of weeks was like a few months to

1185
01:35:55.600 --> 01:35:57.840
a little kid, and it's like a long time. So

1186
01:35:57.920 --> 01:36:03.359
we probably moved there after school finished. So I went there,

1187
01:36:04.760 --> 01:36:08.439
left South End and we moved there instead of visiting

1188
01:36:08.479 --> 01:36:16.600
at weekends. Who moved there forever? And it was technically

1189
01:36:16.760 --> 01:36:19.720
that was like the best birthday present I ever had

1190
01:36:19.800 --> 01:36:24.840
because for the first time, well since I was a baby,

1191
01:36:25.640 --> 01:36:31.720
I was had two parents and my brothers all together

1192
01:36:31.840 --> 01:36:39.079
in one house. Yeah, so that was brilliant. Yep. And

1193
01:36:39.239 --> 01:36:43.439
I was the baby for one more year, but just

1194
01:36:43.600 --> 01:36:53.520
one year, move on, Joe Joe. Mary asks me, how

1195
01:36:53.600 --> 01:36:56.880
do you design the episode title artwork? You use? It's

1196
01:36:57.159 --> 01:37:04.680
always so creative, Well, thank you. I use different things,

1197
01:37:04.680 --> 01:37:13.640
So I use a mixture of a Canva and Chatch

1198
01:37:13.720 --> 01:37:21.720
EPT five and sometimes other things to put together, maybe

1199
01:37:21.800 --> 01:37:25.439
some images I've got, maybe images that I've found online

1200
01:37:26.439 --> 01:37:28.880
to put together what I want to kind of express.

1201
01:37:30.039 --> 01:37:35.000
Usually it's something to do with the recording. It might

1202
01:37:35.079 --> 01:37:37.920
be hidden in the recording, but it's quite often there's

1203
01:37:37.960 --> 01:37:43.239
a little hint in the image, or sometimes I hide

1204
01:37:43.239 --> 01:37:46.439
a little things in the image where you'd have to

1205
01:37:46.560 --> 01:37:49.439
really have a closer look to see it what it is.

1206
01:37:50.560 --> 01:37:55.880
But generally I have to think what I wanted, what

1207
01:37:56.000 --> 01:37:58.439
I want the record, what I want the image to be.

1208
01:38:00.119 --> 01:38:01.720
So I think that up and then I asked chat

1209
01:38:01.840 --> 01:38:07.680
GP two five to maybe create that image. This is

1210
01:38:07.760 --> 01:38:11.159
one way of doing it. And then I get it

1211
01:38:11.279 --> 01:38:14.600
to redo it and to change things. And it takes

1212
01:38:14.800 --> 01:38:19.479
quite a while, sometimes sometimes half hour an hour to

1213
01:38:19.800 --> 01:38:23.920
get the image done, depends on how well it comes

1214
01:38:23.960 --> 01:38:27.840
out first time. And then I go into Canva and

1215
01:38:27.960 --> 01:38:33.039
I edit the image. And sometimes I do multiple images

1216
01:38:33.079 --> 01:38:36.119
and put them all together, taking off the background, put

1217
01:38:36.199 --> 01:38:44.199
them into Canva, editing it so it looks like one image. Yes,

1218
01:38:44.319 --> 01:38:46.199
so that's kind of what I do. I used to

1219
01:38:46.960 --> 01:38:49.840
sometimes again, I'd take stuff from online and i'd change

1220
01:38:49.880 --> 01:38:54.479
the image edit it, or pictures of myself or pictures

1221
01:38:54.560 --> 01:39:00.560
of Vinnie, you know, just or put in my picture

1222
01:39:00.640 --> 01:39:03.680
and make me be in this scenario, and you know,

1223
01:39:03.840 --> 01:39:10.279
things like that. So the Q and A Friday images

1224
01:39:10.760 --> 01:39:15.239
just generally just Queo Friday. But like I did an

1225
01:39:15.279 --> 01:39:21.239
image yesterday goodbye Uncle Sausages, and it was a nice image.

1226
01:39:21.279 --> 01:39:24.239
It was a picture, not one I made up, just

1227
01:39:24.359 --> 01:39:29.479
one that had been taken yesterday. So I do sometimes

1228
01:39:29.560 --> 01:39:33.960
do that as well. And there's pictures of me and

1229
01:39:34.079 --> 01:39:38.039
my seecret at uniform, pictures of me in my karate

1230
01:39:38.359 --> 01:39:42.920
uniform when I was a kid, that is. So there's

1231
01:39:42.960 --> 01:39:47.039
lots of different images. I mean, I've done what fourteen

1232
01:39:48.640 --> 01:39:52.560
one thousand and four hundred, and I don't know how

1233
01:39:52.600 --> 01:39:56.479
many I've done. Now let's have a look. So yesterday's

1234
01:39:56.479 --> 01:40:00.760
one with number one, four hundred and twenty four. So

1235
01:40:00.880 --> 01:40:03.279
this is one for I was four hundred and twenty five.

1236
01:40:04.000 --> 01:40:08.479
So that's how many images I suppose I've done, although

1237
01:40:08.560 --> 01:40:10.640
I think some of the earlier ones didn't have images,

1238
01:40:12.000 --> 01:40:14.439
but I did. I started doing images a few years back.

1239
01:40:16.960 --> 01:40:19.600
I do wonder, you know, because I listened to some

1240
01:40:19.680 --> 01:40:23.520
of my old stuff from I don't know, fifteen years

1241
01:40:23.560 --> 01:40:27.319
ago and I think, oh, I can't believe I did

1242
01:40:27.359 --> 01:40:32.680
stuff that wasn't good at all, and I've really improved.

1243
01:40:32.840 --> 01:40:35.119
What I do is I mean, the quality of the

1244
01:40:35.279 --> 01:40:39.359
sound is better than it used to be. But I

1245
01:40:39.439 --> 01:40:40.960
wonder if that's what it's going to be like in

1246
01:40:41.760 --> 01:40:44.920
ten years time. If I look back at let's say

1247
01:40:44.960 --> 01:40:48.319
today's recording, all the recordings that I've been doing in

1248
01:40:48.479 --> 01:40:50.880
the last year or so, well, I look back at

1249
01:40:50.920 --> 01:40:56.680
these recordings, I think, oh, my goodness, I don't believe

1250
01:40:56.760 --> 01:41:01.920
that I used to make such recordings as that. I'm

1251
01:41:02.079 --> 01:41:06.560
so glad that I managed to improve the quality of

1252
01:41:06.680 --> 01:41:10.640
the content. I don't know. I might look back at

1253
01:41:10.680 --> 01:41:16.960
this and think, God, what was I doing. It's possible.

1254
01:41:21.039 --> 01:41:26.840
So what was the question again, what's the best birthday?

1255
01:41:26.960 --> 01:41:27.000
No?

1256
01:41:27.159 --> 01:41:29.680
No, how do you design an episode? Yeah? So that

1257
01:41:29.840 --> 01:41:35.960
that's kind of how I do it is they're creative,

1258
01:41:36.319 --> 01:41:40.359
but I have to say what I want, so I

1259
01:41:40.520 --> 01:41:43.600
have to create it kind of in my mind roughly

1260
01:41:43.720 --> 01:41:46.119
what I want, and then I have to find a

1261
01:41:46.159 --> 01:41:50.399
way to put that together because I'm not an artist. Like,

1262
01:41:52.880 --> 01:41:58.600
as far as creative images which you can do, you know,

1263
01:41:58.720 --> 01:42:01.279
there are there are programs that you can put an

1264
01:42:01.319 --> 01:42:04.520
image together and make it from scratch. That's that's not

1265
01:42:04.720 --> 01:42:07.479
something that I could do or something that I even

1266
01:42:07.520 --> 01:42:11.760
want to learn to do. But I know what I want.

1267
01:42:13.319 --> 01:42:16.039
Does that make sense if I want? Like the other day,

1268
01:42:16.560 --> 01:42:18.920
I wanted an image of a baby jump and O

1269
01:42:18.920 --> 01:42:25.239
have a cake, but chatch Ebt wouldn't allow it, even

1270
01:42:25.239 --> 01:42:28.119
though it's basically just my little brother ruling my eighth

1271
01:42:28.199 --> 01:42:31.439
birthday party because it was just born the day before

1272
01:42:31.520 --> 01:42:33.439
my birthday party, and that's what it was supposed to be,

1273
01:42:33.760 --> 01:42:37.359
him jumping out of the cake ruling my party, like

1274
01:42:37.439 --> 01:42:42.399
auld jokey kind of thing. But they could they wouldn't.

1275
01:42:43.079 --> 01:42:45.159
It was hard to get it done because it was

1276
01:42:45.600 --> 01:42:49.119
it took ages to put that image together. Let me

1277
01:42:49.199 --> 01:42:53.520
ever look at it. I did that on the day

1278
01:42:53.600 --> 01:42:58.960
before my birthday. I think the internet's shut down for

1279
01:42:59.079 --> 01:42:59.600
some reason.

1280
01:43:00.000 --> 01:43:00.159
Why.

1281
01:43:02.880 --> 01:43:04.199
That's very strange.

1282
01:43:04.359 --> 01:43:04.880
Oh it is?

1283
01:43:06.439 --> 01:43:11.680
Why is it hidden? Oh? I know why? So okay,

1284
01:43:11.760 --> 01:43:17.399
the image I ended up with with how my brother

1285
01:43:17.520 --> 01:43:21.199
ruined my eighth birthday, there's a number one, four hundred

1286
01:43:21.199 --> 01:43:25.000
and twenty two, So that was on Monday, and it's

1287
01:43:25.039 --> 01:43:29.239
an image of me frowning with birthday bor my T shirt,

1288
01:43:30.399 --> 01:43:36.720
there's my dad with his beard, there's my stepmm holding

1289
01:43:36.800 --> 01:43:42.800
a new baby, and then there's the my oldest brother

1290
01:43:42.920 --> 01:43:45.720
and my other brother. So it's all kind of you know, planned,

1291
01:43:46.920 --> 01:43:49.239
and it's got number eight. So on a birthday cake,

1292
01:43:50.319 --> 01:43:54.000
everyone's laughing except me, and I'm just shrowning. And then

1293
01:43:54.039 --> 01:43:58.199
there's a big speech bubble aimed supposed to be aiming

1294
01:43:58.239 --> 01:44:05.800
towards the baby, saying I'm the baby now. So it's

1295
01:44:06.000 --> 01:44:12.159
not always easy to put it all together, but other

1296
01:44:12.279 --> 01:44:17.640
times it works quite nice. So it's a very simple thing,

1297
01:44:17.760 --> 01:44:20.840
like Vinnie woke me up. This is what I did

1298
01:44:20.920 --> 01:44:29.479
on the twenty fourth of August, and I wanted to

1299
01:44:29.600 --> 01:44:33.239
be like an image of me. It never always comes

1300
01:44:33.319 --> 01:44:35.800
up right, but it's kind of an image of me

1301
01:44:36.479 --> 01:44:41.880
in bed. But I wanted me to be wearing old

1302
01:44:42.079 --> 01:44:50.279
Victorian type bedclothes, a bit like Scrooge Dickenson kind of thing.

1303
01:44:50.600 --> 01:44:53.039
But then it wouldn't allow that because that was copyright,

1304
01:44:53.119 --> 01:44:56.239
and like, okay, how can I get around that? And

1305
01:44:57.239 --> 01:45:02.479
I wanted Vinnie basically the same wake up and there's

1306
01:45:02.520 --> 01:45:05.760
a little tag with video on it. So I just

1307
01:45:06.000 --> 01:45:08.439
kind of played around and in the end managed to

1308
01:45:09.079 --> 01:45:13.239
get an image that kind of worked, and then the

1309
01:45:13.319 --> 01:45:16.199
day before that, I did call one called good Morning,

1310
01:45:18.680 --> 01:45:21.319
and basically what I was talking about was working at

1311
01:45:21.359 --> 01:45:23.000
different jobs, and I was at at one point I

1312
01:45:23.079 --> 01:45:28.279
was talking about working in the bakery and how if

1313
01:45:28.840 --> 01:45:33.399
the conveyor belt never stopped hardly so sometimes you'd end

1314
01:45:33.479 --> 01:45:37.760
up with bread rolls all over the floor. So I

1315
01:45:37.840 --> 01:45:42.479
thought I wanted an image of me with bread rolls

1316
01:45:42.560 --> 01:45:48.119
kind of up to my waist and then falling off

1317
01:45:48.159 --> 01:45:52.560
the conveyor belt. And it took quite a while for

1318
01:45:52.720 --> 01:45:56.199
me to get it done, you know, lots of different versions,

1319
01:45:56.239 --> 01:45:59.079
and then I found it. So even though the image

1320
01:45:59.159 --> 01:46:03.319
is it probably looks like quite an easy image to do,

1321
01:46:03.760 --> 01:46:06.000
it took a while to kind of put it together.

1322
01:46:09.319 --> 01:46:13.399
And then I did one last week twenty second August

1323
01:46:14.039 --> 01:46:23.239
twenty twenty five. Was it Friday? Last Friday, And I

1324
01:46:23.319 --> 01:46:25.640
wanted to talk about bottles because I've got ninety six

1325
01:46:25.680 --> 01:46:30.159
bottles of water delivered and I wanted a house made

1326
01:46:30.159 --> 01:46:35.119
of bottles. And in the end, it didn't come out

1327
01:46:35.159 --> 01:46:38.520
how I wanted it to come out as but I had,

1328
01:46:38.600 --> 01:46:40.239
you know, I spent so long on it, I just

1329
01:46:40.319 --> 01:46:46.560
thought it's you going to have to do. So you

1330
01:46:46.640 --> 01:46:50.920
know I did that. I wasn't it wasn't crazy about

1331
01:46:51.079 --> 01:46:55.359
the text, but you know it ended up okay. I

1332
01:46:55.399 --> 01:46:58.279
should know. If I did any game now, i'd make

1333
01:46:58.279 --> 01:47:02.560
a few changes. And I didn't run. The day before,

1334
01:47:02.680 --> 01:47:04.079
I bought myself to sleep.

1335
01:47:05.319 --> 01:47:06.560
So I've got a.

1336
01:47:08.600 --> 01:47:15.640
Sheep in a chair asleep but dreaming or thinking or whatever,

1337
01:47:15.760 --> 01:47:20.720
dreaming of Instead of sheep jumping running around, he's got humans.

1338
01:47:21.079 --> 01:47:23.000
So he's got a human jumping over a fence and

1339
01:47:23.640 --> 01:47:27.399
two humans like running around. It's just little things like that.

1340
01:47:29.439 --> 01:47:31.560
It's another one called thin Legs that I did the

1341
01:47:31.640 --> 01:47:38.640
day before, and it's basically a caricature of me with

1342
01:47:38.800 --> 01:47:44.439
a big upper body and tiny little legs because I

1343
01:47:44.560 --> 01:47:51.600
bought some Yeah, I bought some tracksup bonds and then

1344
01:47:51.840 --> 01:47:57.239
Teddy Bears. That's Trivia Tuesday last week. So I've got

1345
01:47:57.279 --> 01:48:01.239
a picture of a Teddy Bear picnic, three pre bears,

1346
01:48:02.479 --> 01:48:07.960
all hats on, drinking through straws for some glasses, with

1347
01:48:08.159 --> 01:48:13.680
some burgers and stuff, you know, on the on the blanket,

1348
01:48:13.960 --> 01:48:17.119
checkered blanket, but in the background, because in the park

1349
01:48:17.199 --> 01:48:19.359
in the background, like all these humans just running away

1350
01:48:19.479 --> 01:48:22.399
around screaming and running away screaming.

1351
01:48:22.520 --> 01:48:25.399
So I like that.

1352
01:48:27.119 --> 01:48:31.279
And then another one, mental health review. I seem to

1353
01:48:31.359 --> 01:48:33.399
be doing one every day. If I have, I've been

1354
01:48:33.479 --> 01:48:39.560
quite good recently. Mental health review is there's bugs Bunny

1355
01:48:40.199 --> 01:48:45.479
sitting on a like a psychiatrist's couch, and a psychiatrist

1356
01:48:45.680 --> 01:48:51.840
is looks a bit like Freud, and there's that whole thing,

1357
01:48:52.079 --> 01:48:55.560
you know, Christine pointing out what's up, doc, and it

1358
01:48:55.720 --> 01:48:57.840
is the could. Yeah, So it was quite because I

1359
01:48:58.000 --> 01:49:01.319
just had a mental health review on a Monday, and

1360
01:49:02.279 --> 01:49:03.840
then I got one up. I don't know what I'm

1361
01:49:03.880 --> 01:49:05.640
telling you. You might already know this. You might have

1362
01:49:05.720 --> 01:49:08.760
seen them. I have to go outside, and this was

1363
01:49:10.359 --> 01:49:13.600
I think this was Sunday the eighteenth. So it's me,

1364
01:49:14.079 --> 01:49:16.439
Well it's kind of not really me, but it's kind

1365
01:49:16.479 --> 01:49:19.199
of a me kind of picture. A middle aged man,

1366
01:49:19.399 --> 01:49:23.560
more hair, and there's like I have to go outside

1367
01:49:23.600 --> 01:49:25.680
at the top, but he's in a kind of a

1368
01:49:25.840 --> 01:49:29.119
very gray kind of room and there's a doorway, but

1369
01:49:29.239 --> 01:49:33.640
everything outside the doorway is very bright, light and colorful,

1370
01:49:34.479 --> 01:49:36.600
kind of like the Wizard of Us. So that was

1371
01:49:36.680 --> 01:49:40.520
what I was looking for. It took a while to

1372
01:49:40.600 --> 01:49:47.119
get that together. But I was pleased. I mean, I

1373
01:49:47.199 --> 01:49:49.439
had to make a lot of changes to get it

1374
01:49:49.560 --> 01:49:57.640
to where it was, so, yeah, that's kind of.

1375
01:49:59.399 --> 01:49:59.880
What is that.

1376
01:50:00.079 --> 01:50:09.079
Yeah, sometimes it's quite easy, you know, like Trivia Tuesday.

1377
01:50:09.199 --> 01:50:13.159
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking about vikings,

1378
01:50:13.199 --> 01:50:16.880
I think, so I just wanted to be a viking

1379
01:50:17.359 --> 01:50:23.319
with green Beard with a helmet with a title Trivia Tuesday,

1380
01:50:23.760 --> 01:50:27.119
and that's what it did, and it did it very quickly. Well,

1381
01:50:27.119 --> 01:50:32.119
I took a few seconds, maybe ten seconds. Adam was

1382
01:50:32.159 --> 01:50:35.840
pretty much perfect straightaway. So there's times like that when

1383
01:50:35.840 --> 01:50:40.960
it's really good, and other times when it takes absolutely well.

1384
01:50:41.039 --> 01:50:48.199
It seems to take a long time, and sometimes I

1385
01:50:48.279 --> 01:50:51.600
can't be bothered. It's like, just I don't want to

1386
01:50:51.640 --> 01:50:54.800
spend so long working on images. Do you want to

1387
01:50:54.880 --> 01:50:58.880
get thing out. I've made the recording, just doing the editing,

1388
01:51:01.239 --> 01:51:03.039
and there's been times where I've actually just put it

1389
01:51:03.119 --> 01:51:06.199
out without an image because I just like, no, it's

1390
01:51:06.199 --> 01:51:09.359
it's taken way too long, especially when I had to

1391
01:51:09.439 --> 01:51:12.920
keep going up to the hospital, so I'd edit and

1392
01:51:13.000 --> 01:51:17.760
then I'd just like post it without an image. So

1393
01:51:17.880 --> 01:51:21.800
that's kind of my creative take on that. So some

1394
01:51:21.920 --> 01:51:24.439
would argue maybe that it's not creative at all because

1395
01:51:24.439 --> 01:51:28.000
I'm not the one really doing anything. I've given the instructions,

1396
01:51:30.840 --> 01:51:33.199
but yeah, it's coming out of my head. It's coming

1397
01:51:33.199 --> 01:51:36.079
out of my mind a lot of it, and I

1398
01:51:36.199 --> 01:51:38.199
also have to do the editing, and I know what

1399
01:51:38.279 --> 01:51:42.600
I'm looking for. So yeah, thank you for that. So

1400
01:51:42.800 --> 01:51:48.359
Cheryl asks, since you seem concerned about your forehead getting larger,

1401
01:51:51.760 --> 01:52:05.520
oh my goodness, would you consider getting their hair piece? No? Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, However,

1402
01:52:07.880 --> 01:52:10.479
I think the only reason only time I would ever

1403
01:52:11.479 --> 01:52:16.199
get a hair piece, it would be probably in the

1404
01:52:16.319 --> 01:52:20.039
event of if I was in a play or if

1405
01:52:20.079 --> 01:52:22.439
I was in in some kind of fancy dress situation.

1406
01:52:23.279 --> 01:52:25.680
Then you know, perhaps I would wear like a wig

1407
01:52:25.800 --> 01:52:32.359
or something. But and you know, I do understand why

1408
01:52:32.479 --> 01:52:38.600
people do need to wear hair pieces and wigs and stuff,

1409
01:52:39.159 --> 01:52:43.640
but I don't, especially as although I go on about

1410
01:52:43.640 --> 01:52:47.840
my hair and stuff, I've spent many years bored. I've

1411
01:52:47.880 --> 01:52:50.640
been shaving my head on purpose. It's hard to do

1412
01:52:50.720 --> 01:52:55.359
it accidentally. But you know, basically, I don't care that much.

1413
01:52:55.479 --> 01:52:57.319
I'm just a little bit annoyed that I don't have

1414
01:52:57.479 --> 01:53:00.680
control over it anymore. Because before I shave it off,

1415
01:53:00.960 --> 01:53:03.399
and I was in control. Now I don't have to

1416
01:53:03.479 --> 01:53:05.399
shave it all off because it kind of does it

1417
01:53:05.560 --> 01:53:10.840
doesn't grow back, so it's a little bit annoying. My

1418
01:53:11.000 --> 01:53:12.079
forehead getting larger.

1419
01:53:12.560 --> 01:53:12.960
I like that.

1420
01:53:14.840 --> 01:53:22.920
No, never, No, I wouldn't. I don't. I understand, you know,

1421
01:53:23.000 --> 01:53:27.319
like some famous people they I don't think i'd look

1422
01:53:27.399 --> 01:53:31.560
younger because that's the thing, like, Okay, I could be

1423
01:53:31.640 --> 01:53:36.560
in my sixties while I'm nearly fifty five now. I

1424
01:53:36.640 --> 01:53:41.079
don't think I'm going to look younger with a hair piece.

1425
01:53:43.479 --> 01:53:45.359
I think the only thing that would make me perhaps

1426
01:53:45.439 --> 01:53:47.279
look a bit younger if I didn't have the gray.

1427
01:53:48.119 --> 01:53:50.600
But then my hair is not that gray. It's gray,

1428
01:53:50.720 --> 01:53:53.880
but it's gray in at the sides at the top.

1429
01:53:54.640 --> 01:53:59.000
But there's a lot of hair that's still dark dark

1430
01:53:59.079 --> 01:54:04.439
brown my head, but my beard less. So I got Yeah,

1431
01:54:05.119 --> 01:54:07.600
my beard's definitely gone much more grayer than my hair

1432
01:54:07.720 --> 01:54:15.680
on my head. And no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't get

1433
01:54:15.680 --> 01:54:19.600
a hair piece. And I think if I met someone

1434
01:54:19.960 --> 01:54:23.319
and they kind of were really like, well, I want

1435
01:54:23.359 --> 01:54:25.359
you to get a hair piece, I don't like. I

1436
01:54:25.439 --> 01:54:30.439
don't like being with someone that's baled. Mate.

1437
01:54:31.039 --> 01:54:31.399
I don't.

1438
01:54:31.520 --> 01:54:33.560
Yeah, I'd probably just say well I'll see you. Then,

1439
01:54:34.199 --> 01:54:36.960
you know, find someone else that's got hair or just

1440
01:54:37.079 --> 01:54:40.600
willing to wear a hair piece because I don't. Don't

1441
01:54:40.680 --> 01:54:43.560
date someone that's bald. If you don't want to be

1442
01:54:43.640 --> 01:54:47.000
with someone that's baled. That's the way I see it is,

1443
01:54:47.640 --> 01:54:49.880
if you want to date someone that's tall, don't date

1444
01:54:49.960 --> 01:54:52.840
someone as short. Or if you want someone that's short,

1445
01:54:52.920 --> 01:54:55.960
don't date someone that's tall, expect them to crouch all

1446
01:54:56.000 --> 01:54:58.680
the time, walk on their knees.

1447
01:54:59.520 --> 01:54:59.720
You know.

1448
01:55:00.920 --> 01:55:06.479
It's like things like that are controllable, not meeting someone

1449
01:55:06.560 --> 01:55:09.279
that you feel you know, you might meet someone that

1450
01:55:09.479 --> 01:55:16.039
they've ticked all the other boxes, but ultimately, why walk

1451
01:55:16.159 --> 01:55:23.159
up to someone and start talking to them? If it's

1452
01:55:23.199 --> 01:55:26.479
a big no no. Then being seven foot tall and

1453
01:55:26.600 --> 01:55:31.279
maybe you're four foot five and you know your limit

1454
01:55:31.359 --> 01:55:33.840
of height is only it only go as high as

1455
01:55:33.920 --> 01:55:34.680
six foot two.

1456
01:55:35.479 --> 01:55:40.520
As for a partner, you know, or you want someone shorter,

1457
01:55:43.960 --> 01:55:46.760
or if you've got to really if that's the thing,

1458
01:55:47.479 --> 01:55:53.840
if you've got to really a thing, you know, whatever

1459
01:55:54.199 --> 01:55:56.920
the person is, whether you're a male, female or.

1460
01:55:56.880 --> 01:56:05.119
Whatever, if you've got a particular like so, I would

1461
01:56:05.159 --> 01:56:09.359
say go with that, like, go with it. Whether you've

1462
01:56:10.880 --> 01:56:15.039
really got a thing for someone with a certain color hair,

1463
01:56:16.039 --> 01:56:19.560
or someone with a type of maybe from a certain

1464
01:56:19.600 --> 01:56:26.079
part of the world, or someone who's really really really

1465
01:56:26.239 --> 01:56:32.159
tall or whatever. If you've got something, if that really

1466
01:56:33.399 --> 01:56:36.560
has a big impact on how you feel physically and emotionally,

1467
01:56:37.640 --> 01:56:39.960
then it makes sense to kind of go towards that,

1468
01:56:42.520 --> 01:56:46.319
you know, or body size even but then body size,

1469
01:56:46.560 --> 01:56:49.079
like height is not really going to change. Is it

1470
01:56:49.199 --> 01:56:51.239
going to get a bit shorter with age, It's not

1471
01:56:51.359 --> 01:57:04.159
really going to change too much classes you know, you know.

1472
01:57:04.319 --> 01:57:06.600
I guess if you're dating someone who doesn't have glasses

1473
01:57:06.640 --> 01:57:09.359
and they start wearing glasses, maybe you've got an issue

1474
01:57:09.399 --> 01:57:13.000
with people wearing glasses. Some people do. I used to

1475
01:57:13.039 --> 01:57:18.880
be a bit weird towards glasses where wearers, even though

1476
01:57:18.880 --> 01:57:22.479
I wore glasses myself. My attitude was, why would I

1477
01:57:22.479 --> 01:57:25.840
want to date someone that's wears glasses, because it'd be

1478
01:57:25.920 --> 01:57:31.319
like having a relationship through a window. Because I wear

1479
01:57:31.359 --> 01:57:33.920
glasses as well, it'd be like wearing you know, or

1480
01:57:33.960 --> 01:57:35.359
I didn't wear them all the time, but it'd be

1481
01:57:35.439 --> 01:57:39.039
like having a relationship through a window, which is rude.

1482
01:57:40.079 --> 01:57:42.199
And I shouldn't have said that out to people loud

1483
01:57:42.520 --> 01:57:46.960
in public, but I thought it was kind of funny.

1484
01:57:48.600 --> 01:57:50.720
But at the time, I didn't wear glasses all the time.

1485
01:57:51.560 --> 01:57:56.239
I just had to wear them for reading. So I

1486
01:57:56.319 --> 01:57:59.000
don't feel that way anymore. It's not like having a

1487
01:57:59.039 --> 01:58:02.079
relationship through all. You know, if I date song glasses,

1488
01:58:02.920 --> 01:58:07.119
it's what it's double glazing now, isn't it? Pretty much?

1489
01:58:08.680 --> 01:58:18.920
And yeah, what was I gonna say? What was the question?

1490
01:58:19.760 --> 01:58:19.920
Oh?

1491
01:58:20.039 --> 01:58:25.000
Hair pieces? So yeah, i'd yeah, I see a lot

1492
01:58:25.039 --> 01:58:29.920
of the old movie stars, like from the old days.

1493
01:58:29.960 --> 01:58:32.840
It used to wear wigs, and you could see it

1494
01:58:32.920 --> 01:58:43.720
with wigs, but it kind of didn't matter. It's kind

1495
01:58:43.720 --> 01:58:51.359
of one of those weird things is if I'm boarding,

1496
01:58:51.640 --> 01:58:53.960
I'm not like I've got a board patch at the back.

1497
01:58:54.439 --> 01:58:58.600
I'm receding. I've been receding for decades and my hair

1498
01:59:01.520 --> 01:59:04.159
and I moan about it. But firstly, I can't see

1499
01:59:04.199 --> 01:59:05.600
the back of my head, so I can't see the

1500
01:59:05.680 --> 01:59:07.920
board patch. I forget it's there most of the time

1501
01:59:08.520 --> 01:59:10.760
until people just start laughing at me when I'm walking

1502
01:59:10.840 --> 01:59:16.640
down the street. But I wouldn't I mean, I wouldn't

1503
01:59:16.680 --> 01:59:18.880
get you can't really get bald. You can't get the

1504
01:59:18.960 --> 01:59:21.720
hair piece just for one tiny little board patch, can you,

1505
01:59:22.800 --> 01:59:28.920
Or one average size, growing ever increasing bald patch.

1506
01:59:30.760 --> 01:59:31.319
I don't care.

1507
01:59:31.600 --> 01:59:35.399
I'm at an age now where having a board patch

1508
01:59:36.239 --> 01:59:38.479
there's no shame. There's no shame in never having a

1509
01:59:38.520 --> 01:59:42.000
board patch. But I'm fifty five. I'm allowed to have

1510
01:59:42.760 --> 01:59:47.600
a board patch without having to explain myself, you know,

1511
01:59:49.199 --> 01:59:51.319
I mean everyone is. It doesn't matter what age you are.

1512
01:59:51.760 --> 01:59:55.279
Some people go baled and in their teenage years. I

1513
01:59:55.880 --> 01:59:58.079
know people. I know a girl that went completely gray

1514
01:59:58.159 --> 02:00:04.159
when she was fourteen, and it's like she dyed her hair.

1515
02:00:04.319 --> 02:00:06.920
Of course she dyed her hair. What else was she

1516
02:00:07.000 --> 02:00:12.119
going to do? But nowadays having gray hair is almost

1517
02:00:12.199 --> 02:00:15.600
a fashion, isn't it with young people? Or blue hair

1518
02:00:15.760 --> 02:00:21.720
or green hair. So yeah, I don't. I would never

1519
02:00:21.800 --> 02:00:22.039
wear it.

1520
02:00:23.000 --> 02:00:23.560
Well, I do do.

1521
02:00:23.680 --> 02:00:33.000
Actually, sometimes there's a lot of banging around whatever that is.

1522
02:00:44.680 --> 02:00:55.800
It's weird. I oh, I don't think I was talking about.

1523
02:01:03.399 --> 02:01:05.960
I can't remember what I was talking about now, but yeah, no,

1524
02:01:06.039 --> 02:01:11.119
I wouldn't. I wouldn't wear a hair piece. I think

1525
02:01:11.119 --> 02:01:14.720
it's okay. Love me for how I am and love

1526
02:01:14.840 --> 02:01:20.279
me for how I will be because you can't have

1527
02:01:20.399 --> 02:01:23.680
how I used to be because that's gone. So all

1528
02:01:23.720 --> 02:01:26.600
you've got is how I am now. And if you

1529
02:01:26.640 --> 02:01:29.760
want to stick around, you'll be. You see how I

1530
02:01:30.079 --> 02:01:35.119
will be, mind you, if you listen to the podcast,

1531
02:01:35.199 --> 02:01:37.520
you'll find out how I was as well, because I

1532
02:01:37.600 --> 02:01:40.479
do talk about the past. It's hard to talk about

1533
02:01:40.520 --> 02:01:43.239
the future, isn't it, because it hasn't happened yet apparently,

1534
02:01:46.800 --> 02:01:50.800
and I do believe or that is all the questions.

1535
02:01:53.840 --> 02:01:56.680
So thank you very much for listening. Remember to be

1536
02:01:56.800 --> 02:01:58.880
kind to yourself, and thank you for all the questions.

1537
02:01:58.920 --> 02:02:04.920
I say you we are hope, Rich Robin, Kathleen, Mary,

1538
02:02:05.279 --> 02:02:08.760
dev Sheryl, So thank you all of you for your questions,

1539
02:02:10.199 --> 02:02:12.279
and remember to be kind to yourself because you do

1540
02:02:12.560 --> 02:02:16.119
deserve to be happy and be gentle with yourself. You

1541
02:02:16.239 --> 02:02:21.399
deserve to feel safe. Lots of love.

1542
02:02:24.760 --> 02:02:25.039
Bye.

1543
02:02:30.760 --> 02:02:45.279
Relax in a more deep and meaningful way, maybe in

1544
02:02:45.399 --> 02:02:50.880
a way that can not just allow you to feel

1545
02:02:52.319 --> 02:03:01.399
calmer now and throughout the time we've and together here,

1546
02:03:03.560 --> 02:03:09.239
not just relaxed at the end of the recording when

1547
02:03:09.279 --> 02:03:15.920
it's finished and you can enjoy that sense of comfort

1548
02:03:16.119 --> 02:03:31.000
and peace, but also I think it would be nice

1549
02:03:31.159 --> 02:03:50.880
to have those feelings of relaxation continue for longer after

1550
02:03:51.039 --> 02:04:01.560
the recording has ended, so that you can still benefit

1551
02:04:04.479 --> 02:04:11.720
from listening to my voice, maybe in a few hours time,

1552
02:04:13.640 --> 02:04:27.079
perhaps tomorrow, and then by listening regularly, especially if you

1553
02:04:27.319 --> 02:04:31.520
find like some people do and myself as well. I

1554
02:04:32.119 --> 02:04:38.840
sometimes I find one particular recording that really resonates with me,

1555
02:04:43.239 --> 02:04:45.560
and I just listen to it over and over again

1556
02:04:47.880 --> 02:05:00.840
every morning, every evening. There was this recording from We're

1557
02:05:00.920 --> 02:05:05.520
going back to about nineteen ninety nine. It was it

1558
02:05:05.640 --> 02:05:10.640
wasn't hypnosis, but it was a guided visualizations. It kind

1559
02:05:10.680 --> 02:05:17.720
of was hypnosis really, and I managed to find it

1560
02:05:17.880 --> 02:05:21.720
again and it still has the same effect on me,

1561
02:05:24.359 --> 02:05:34.079
And part of it was the person's voice relaxed me,

1562
02:05:38.119 --> 02:05:44.760
just felt so peaceful, and I'd look forward to listening

1563
02:05:45.319 --> 02:05:57.199
to her in the morning and in the evening. And

1564
02:05:57.720 --> 02:06:06.840
I knew before even pressing the play button that since

1565
02:06:06.960 --> 02:06:11.279
I've done that, pressed the play button. This is in

1566
02:06:11.399 --> 02:06:25.760
the days of CD players, press the play button, if

1567
02:06:25.840 --> 02:06:28.439
that it might have even been a tape tape recorder.

1568
02:06:29.760 --> 02:06:38.119
I'd lie down on the bed and then even without

1569
02:06:38.680 --> 02:06:51.640
necessarily listening to her words, because I had to memorized. Really,

1570
02:06:56.319 --> 02:07:02.159
it was as if my body knew exactly what to do,

1571
02:07:07.119 --> 02:07:28.800
and the muscles just almost went into automatic relaxation, and

1572
02:07:29.079 --> 02:07:42.720
I remember my mind would slow down. Now. Now, I

1573
02:07:43.119 --> 02:07:49.319
was listening to this recording in the early days of

1574
02:07:49.479 --> 02:07:59.720
learning hypnosis, and long before I ever made any video

1575
02:08:00.279 --> 02:08:04.960
or audio recordings myself, because I didn't start doing that

1576
02:08:05.119 --> 02:08:18.800
till two thousand and six. But I knew, I knew

1577
02:08:19.279 --> 02:08:31.960
how helpful I found being able to just let go,

1578
02:08:35.039 --> 02:08:40.399
to have that trust in the person that I'm listening to,

1579
02:08:48.119 --> 02:08:56.159
knowing that it's going to be just as relaxing, if

1580
02:08:56.279 --> 02:09:01.479
not more so. Each time time you hear my voice,

1581
02:09:05.560 --> 02:09:17.159
you may feel the same. Some people have been listening

1582
02:09:17.239 --> 02:09:31.159
to me for over a decade, maybe not solidly, obviously

1583
02:09:31.239 --> 02:09:37.640
not twenty four hours a day, but maybe people come back.

1584
02:09:39.520 --> 02:09:53.119
Some people may be listen every day. There's something that

1585
02:09:53.279 --> 02:10:06.239
I do which you may not realize by listening, is

1586
02:10:10.399 --> 02:10:24.640
when I record these recordings. Now, for example, I also

1587
02:10:26.199 --> 02:10:37.399
am affected by the words that I say. So if

1588
02:10:37.479 --> 02:10:46.560
I said to you, focus on your feet, notice your

1589
02:10:46.680 --> 02:10:58.560
feet relaxing, I will be focusing on my feet. I

1590
02:10:58.720 --> 02:11:15.920
will be noticing and my feet relaxing. If I said,

1591
02:11:16.079 --> 02:11:23.720
focus on your hands and maybe notice the difference between

1592
02:11:23.800 --> 02:11:34.000
each hand. Perhaps notice the the air in the room,

1593
02:11:34.560 --> 02:11:39.359
the temperature of the room. On the backs of your hands.

1594
02:11:47.199 --> 02:11:51.039
You may start to notice what almost feels like a

1595
02:11:51.239 --> 02:11:59.119
very light breeze, even though there may not be any

1596
02:11:59.640 --> 02:12:04.439
type of breeze at all where you are right now.

1597
02:12:12.800 --> 02:12:23.359
And as you become aware of your hands, I'm also

1598
02:12:23.720 --> 02:12:51.880
aware of how relaxed my hands our feeling now and

1599
02:12:52.119 --> 02:12:59.000
when it comes to potentially drifting off to sleep, which

1600
02:12:59.119 --> 02:13:12.239
may be the reason you're listening, I also feel drowsy

1601
02:13:15.479 --> 02:13:28.960
when I make these recordings. I also notice my mind drifting.

1602
02:13:36.840 --> 02:13:49.439
In fact, at times I've actually fallen asleep without even noticing,

1603
02:13:54.359 --> 02:14:03.800
and then I carry on talking. It's only when I

1604
02:14:05.479 --> 02:14:14.760
listen back to do the editing I hear snoring and

1605
02:14:14.920 --> 02:14:24.880
I think, I don't remember snoring. I remember talking. Is

1606
02:14:24.920 --> 02:14:32.079
this snoring was a pig turned up? That's why I

1607
02:14:32.199 --> 02:14:40.279
sound like when I snare and I get really into

1608
02:14:40.399 --> 02:14:59.720
the whole experience. I don't know how you feel, how

1609
02:15:00.000 --> 02:15:10.640
relaxed you feel in your feet, how relaxed you feel

1610
02:15:10.880 --> 02:15:37.520
in your hands. I have noticed more and more that

1611
02:15:37.720 --> 02:15:53.840
the more relaxed, deeper level of comfort you feel, the

1612
02:15:54.079 --> 02:16:14.640
easier your breathing becomes. It's almost like that additional muscle relaxation.

1613
02:16:19.039 --> 02:16:42.280
So this allows you debree easier without necessarily focusing on

1614
02:16:42.440 --> 02:17:08.120
your breath, however, being able to notice the ease.

1615
02:17:11.239 --> 02:17:12.040
In which.

1616
02:17:19.360 --> 02:17:41.959
You breathe so naturally. You breathe so very easily and smoothly.

1617
02:18:09.719 --> 02:18:27.360
Whenever I imagine my breathing improving when I've got my

1618
02:18:27.520 --> 02:18:46.159
eyes closed, I tend to visualize a beautiful field with

1619
02:18:46.520 --> 02:18:59.920
trees and flowers producing all that life giving oxygen.

1620
02:19:00.040 --> 02:19:00.319
Mhm.

1621
02:19:20.319 --> 02:19:35.799
It feels nice two If nothing else, just taking some

1622
02:19:36.440 --> 02:20:13.399
time away from everything I M enjoying that feeling of peace,

1623
02:20:18.440 --> 02:21:02.959
serenity with a joyful heart. Time seems to just drip by,

1624
02:21:07.479 --> 02:21:57.319
so very slowly, relaxed, so deeply peaceful, completely unattached to

1625
02:21:58.200 --> 02:22:55.120
any thought whatsoever in this moment, completely free, noticing that

1626
02:23:02.719 --> 02:23:49.200
your mind has slowed down. Slowed down because nothing really

1627
02:23:49.479 --> 02:24:20.079
requires your attention. You can enjoy the physical sensations of

1628
02:24:20.239 --> 02:24:32.680
allowing the stress to rip out of your body, to

1629
02:24:32.799 --> 02:24:56.319
appear out of every part of your body, and being

1630
02:24:56.879 --> 02:25:35.479
released from your brain ng your mind slowly but surely,

1631
02:25:42.399 --> 02:26:19.719
the muscle sing lax remas rs ly, so very deeply,

1632
02:26:29.559 --> 02:27:00.399
rs so deeply, and the feeings, the pleasant feeling things

1633
02:27:00.520 --> 02:27:24.760
in your arms and shoulders, deepening each part of your

1634
02:27:24.840 --> 02:28:06.719
body further and deeper and deeper. Noticin the feelings in

1635
02:28:06.799 --> 02:29:06.879
the back of your neck, feelings in your wrists, muscles,

1636
02:29:08.959 --> 02:29:46.239
in front of your body, I all say, feeling peaceful deeply,

1637
02:30:03.280 --> 02:30:13.559
there's a sense of peace spreads through your very core.

1638
02:30:44.079 --> 02:31:03.959
Even when you focus on your mind, the mind becomes

1639
02:31:11.319 --> 02:32:34.159
eve and slower, even deeper, relaxing, so very slow. Your stomach,

1640
02:32:48.280 --> 02:32:50.280
it's Forllin's stomach.

1641
02:33:12.479 --> 02:33:46.520
Your back. Notice Notice how relaxed you'd never fear in

1642
02:33:46.760 --> 02:34:19.440
the hole of your back. You spy from your brain

1643
02:34:19.959 --> 02:34:27.680
all the way down the middle of your back, sending

1644
02:34:28.079 --> 02:35:02.120
and receiving millions of messages every day, deecomfort increasing deep

1645
02:35:02.239 --> 02:35:03.719
playing rix.

1646
02:35:33.760 --> 02:35:34.440
You mes.

1647
02:36:00.079 --> 02:36:13.879
Reles, spreading those signals down your spine or cord into air,

1648
02:36:14.159 --> 02:36:33.600
every part of your body, your shins and your calf muscles,

1649
02:37:00.879 --> 02:37:30.319
your elbows, Feelings of peace and tranquility spreading through your body,

1650
02:37:35.360 --> 02:37:51.600
tips of your toes, to your eyes, your fingers, all

1651
02:37:51.600 --> 02:38:09.200
the way to your lower back. On the thinker retinker

1652
02:38:36.959 --> 02:39:19.559
peace drifting mind just wandering away, happy to let go,

1653
02:39:23.040 --> 02:40:24.360
let go completely, let go, so tranquil, the whole body

1654
02:40:28.680 --> 02:42:51.520
enjoying a sensor listing go, no peace, fur enjoy the space,

1655
02:42:53.920 --> 02:42:55.600
this space.

1656
02:42:58.200 --> 02:42:59.239
Of peace.

1657
02:43:02.520 --> 02:45:24.760
And safety, so fery, relaxed, yay, letting go. Maybe we

1658
02:45:25.000 --> 02:45:32.440
can just focus on the different parts of your body,

1659
02:45:36.600 --> 02:46:06.239
just to notice a forehead in your eyes.

1660
02:46:39.120 --> 02:46:39.840
You two.

1661
02:46:45.319 --> 02:47:26.000
So lose, noticing the sense of complete freedom, absolute freedom,

1662
02:48:12.000 --> 02:49:23.399
pri trit he's fall energy peace, to breathe much easier.

1663
02:50:04.319 --> 02:50:04.639
Loose.

1664
02:50:25.920 --> 02:50:39.280
You may have or may not have noticed your mind drifting.

1665
02:51:15.280 --> 02:51:15.959
Peace for.

1666
02:51:30.120 --> 02:51:45.319
Me any even more deeply in the direction of total

1667
02:51:49.959 --> 02:53:47.040
blissful pace, blissful peace est total peace. Come, soap, calm,

1668
02:53:58.760 --> 02:55:10.600
letting go, peace with mind rexed foty, sir vexed. So relaxed.

1669
02:55:35.079 --> 02:56:01.879
Your body feels almost invisible, so very relaxed. I'm peaceful,

1670
02:56:08.280 --> 02:57:17.079
so peaceful, real liquor, so peaceful. And you could start

1671
02:57:17.559 --> 02:57:27.040
to notice that you are feeling more relaxed, even though

1672
02:57:27.239 --> 02:57:38.479
I've not purposely focused your mind upon that sense of

1673
02:57:38.879 --> 02:57:44.280
physical comfort that is growing within you throughout your body,

1674
02:57:47.479 --> 02:57:57.120
and your mind starts to slow down, and that could

1675
02:57:57.200 --> 02:58:05.479
be almost in recognission of I guess my speech not

1676
02:58:05.719 --> 02:58:22.760
being particularly fast, and things just generally feel calmer. Just

1677
02:58:23.159 --> 02:58:31.639
by listening to my voice, you give yourself an opportunity

1678
02:58:33.440 --> 02:58:39.079
to take a break from the day, take a break

1679
02:58:39.280 --> 02:58:46.959
from your life as it is, and to give yourself

1680
02:58:47.040 --> 02:58:54.920
a rest, giving yourself permission to take some time off,

1681
02:58:57.200 --> 02:59:02.559
and to allow your body to relax and allow your

1682
02:59:02.719 --> 02:59:13.319
mind to slow down, which in turn releases the tension

1683
02:59:14.760 --> 02:59:23.479
and he stresses that you had in your body. It's

1684
02:59:23.520 --> 02:59:28.079
almost as if the parts of your body just open up,

1685
02:59:29.440 --> 02:59:41.040
allowing the negativity out and at the same time replacing

1686
02:59:41.920 --> 02:59:51.440
that negativity with positive heathing energy, which then fills your

1687
02:59:51.520 --> 03:00:03.319
body up and your mind to also starts to appreciate

1688
03:00:04.239 --> 03:00:22.559
those feelings of increasing confidence, an almost uplifting feeling, positive healing,

1689
03:00:25.760 --> 03:00:34.319
an energy that spreads through your body like a wave

1690
03:00:36.639 --> 03:00:48.760
of comfort. And all this comes from just allowing yourself

1691
03:00:51.600 --> 03:00:56.799
a few minutes, maybe half an hour, however long you

1692
03:00:56.920 --> 03:01:09.959
want it to be, just rest and allow your mind

1693
03:01:10.120 --> 03:01:20.879
and your body to almost reset itself to the settings

1694
03:01:21.040 --> 03:01:36.600
of comfort and relaxation, calmness, which allows more room for

1695
03:01:38.040 --> 03:01:50.000
feelings of pleasure and happiness to move around your body

1696
03:01:51.840 --> 03:01:58.280
and into your mind, almost as if your mind and

1697
03:01:58.399 --> 03:02:09.920
your body are sinking together, almost mirroring each other with

1698
03:02:10.399 --> 03:02:24.360
that growing positivity and calmness, and it feels nice. It

1699
03:02:24.520 --> 03:02:30.399
really does feel nice to know that you are the

1700
03:02:30.559 --> 03:02:43.840
one that has allowed yourself to feel more comfort and

1701
03:02:44.079 --> 03:02:46.639
to experience.

1702
03:02:48.399 --> 03:02:49.559
More of this.

1703
03:02:51.319 --> 03:03:06.479
Deep relaxation spreading throughout your body. And as I focus

1704
03:03:08.040 --> 03:03:13.799
on each part of your body, you can notice that

1705
03:03:14.040 --> 03:03:28.559
that part becomes even more relaxed just by focusing on it.

1706
03:03:31.079 --> 03:03:40.760
It becomes even more calm and comfortable just by focusing.

1707
03:03:44.799 --> 03:03:50.559
And as I move down your body, starting at your head,

1708
03:03:53.280 --> 03:03:59.879
the parts that you've already focused on will continue to

1709
03:04:00.200 --> 03:04:07.799
relax deeply, and those parts that we've not yet focused

1710
03:04:07.840 --> 03:04:21.159
on or just automatically release any remain intension in anticipation

1711
03:04:21.600 --> 03:04:34.639
of even more comfort about to come. Now, I'm going

1712
03:04:34.719 --> 03:04:41.600
to start by focusing on your forehead. Just being aware

1713
03:04:41.920 --> 03:04:50.520
of the feelings of your forehead and any background sounds

1714
03:04:52.319 --> 03:04:57.159
like mister Herbert the pigeon can just allow you to

1715
03:04:57.360 --> 03:05:04.559
feel even more relaxed. Just means you're in the moment.

1716
03:05:07.719 --> 03:05:13.079
This isn't this isn't a sterile environment. This is the world.

1717
03:05:16.520 --> 03:05:22.559
I live in the countryside, so there's lots of nature

1718
03:05:23.079 --> 03:05:33.559
sounds around, so as you focus on your forehead, just

1719
03:05:33.840 --> 03:05:41.600
notice how it becomes even more relaxed as you focus

1720
03:05:43.920 --> 03:05:48.399
only on my voice and that part of your body.

1721
03:05:53.600 --> 03:06:01.879
Moving down to your eyes, focusing on your eyes, noticing

1722
03:06:04.360 --> 03:06:14.040
how your eyelids feel so heavy yet so light at

1723
03:06:14.120 --> 03:06:20.559
the same time, and all the muscles around your eyes

1724
03:06:20.799 --> 03:06:35.239
relaxing completely. Moving your focus down to your mouth, your lips,

1725
03:06:35.719 --> 03:06:42.360
your tongue, your teeth, and your gumbs, the whole of

1726
03:06:42.479 --> 03:06:57.280
your mouth relaxing, calm and loose, as you focus now

1727
03:06:58.079 --> 03:07:04.959
on your jaw, not just the part of your jaw

1728
03:07:05.079 --> 03:07:09.520
near your mouth and your chin, but all the way

1729
03:07:09.600 --> 03:07:16.000
up the size of your face to your ears, the

1730
03:07:16.239 --> 03:07:40.719
hole of your jaw, feeding more relaxed and calm. Focusing

1731
03:07:44.200 --> 03:07:49.360
on your neck, the front of your neck and your

1732
03:07:49.520 --> 03:08:02.799
throat relaxing and loose and calm. The side of your neck,

1733
03:08:04.879 --> 03:08:11.799
the right and left side of your neck, relax and

1734
03:08:13.399 --> 03:08:18.520
loose and calm.

1735
03:08:24.879 --> 03:08:27.000
And now the back of your neck.

1736
03:08:30.319 --> 03:08:40.319
Focusing on the back of your neck, letting go of

1737
03:08:40.520 --> 03:08:47.399
any tension that may have been there before, and enjoying

1738
03:08:47.760 --> 03:09:00.680
that sense of increasing comfort and release that you can

1739
03:09:00.840 --> 03:09:11.920
experience in the back of your neck. Moving down your

1740
03:09:12.079 --> 03:09:19.360
back and moving either side of your spine right from

1741
03:09:19.440 --> 03:09:24.799
the top of your back all the way down to

1742
03:09:24.920 --> 03:09:37.159
the bottom of your back, down to your lower back.

1743
03:09:42.239 --> 03:09:49.239
And as you move up and down your spine, you

1744
03:09:49.360 --> 03:09:56.479
can feel the muscles either side of your spine relaxing

1745
03:09:57.200 --> 03:10:10.559
even more. And as those muscles relax, that sense of

1746
03:10:10.840 --> 03:10:21.479
comfort starts to spread outwards from your spine into both

1747
03:10:21.719 --> 03:10:29.280
sides of your back, the top of your back, the middle,

1748
03:10:29.399 --> 03:10:37.879
and your lower back. And as you scan gently and

1749
03:10:38.479 --> 03:10:45.399
slowly up and down your back, there's the muscles in

1750
03:10:45.520 --> 03:10:54.840
the top of your back relax and become looser. The

1751
03:10:55.000 --> 03:11:00.959
muscles in the middle of your back also seem to

1752
03:11:01.280 --> 03:11:10.440
just almost divide from each other, separating and almost melting,

1753
03:11:16.200 --> 03:11:22.200
And in your lower back there seems to be an

1754
03:11:22.239 --> 03:11:36.440
extra special feeling of comfort. The spreads into your hips,

1755
03:11:38.760 --> 03:11:46.559
so down your lower back, into your hips, into the

1756
03:11:46.760 --> 03:11:55.520
area where your cosis are, and into your buttocks, and

1757
03:11:55.639 --> 03:12:04.799
all those muscles that spread bring your lower back into

1758
03:12:04.879 --> 03:12:18.360
your hip area start to melt, start to really let go,

1759
03:12:25.079 --> 03:12:31.799
and even nowhere about to focus on your shoulders, your

1760
03:12:32.040 --> 03:12:42.680
back and your spine will continue to let go, continue

1761
03:12:43.520 --> 03:12:58.360
to relax so calmly and As you focus on your shoulders,

1762
03:13:00.159 --> 03:13:15.440
you may notice that they're already feeling really loose, They're

1763
03:13:15.559 --> 03:13:42.239
already feeding, calm and feeling. Those muscles then move from

1764
03:13:42.360 --> 03:13:57.840
your neck into your shoulders feel so soft and gentle,

1765
03:14:01.959 --> 03:14:23.520
so smooth and calm, and the feeding in your shoulders

1766
03:14:30.879 --> 03:14:39.399
seens to spread deep into your shoulders, that sense of relaxation,

1767
03:14:40.600 --> 03:14:52.079
not just traveling deeply into your muscles, but also relaxing

1768
03:14:54.959 --> 03:15:04.840
the bones and moving all the way to underneath your arms,

1769
03:15:07.680 --> 03:15:13.600
relaxing that whole area between the tops of your shoulders

1770
03:15:14.959 --> 03:15:21.280
and underneath your arms healing.

1771
03:15:26.680 --> 03:15:27.360
You feel so.

1772
03:15:29.319 --> 03:15:43.360
Relaxed and comfortable in your shoulders, which sends that deep

1773
03:15:44.200 --> 03:16:05.319
healing message into your arms. You may feel almost as

1774
03:16:05.360 --> 03:16:12.120
if your arms are not even there, because they're so relaxed,

1775
03:16:15.319 --> 03:17:01.520
so deeply relaxed, so so calm, so loose, not feeling

1776
03:17:01.840 --> 03:17:17.120
spreading all the way down your arms, two elbows, including

1777
03:17:18.799 --> 03:17:32.159
your elbows circumforts spreads.

1778
03:17:36.440 --> 03:17:37.159
Or away.

1779
03:17:39.559 --> 03:17:54.559
Into your wrists, your forearments and your wrists feeling so heavy.

1780
03:17:58.239 --> 03:18:39.559
Yet at the same time, sunlight and gentle frey. See

1781
03:18:41.959 --> 03:19:20.600
now on your hands, my hands, so peaceful in your hands,

1782
03:19:39.120 --> 03:20:02.159
there's sense of real peace. It just seems to I

1783
03:20:02.440 --> 03:20:41.680
feel so familiar when your hands relax deeply ees your things,

1784
03:21:13.879 --> 03:22:18.799
A thing is said, les you thinger tips, moving your

1785
03:22:18.879 --> 03:22:48.440
attention to the front of your body, so comfortable, Moving

1786
03:22:48.719 --> 03:24:15.799
your focus to your legs, love muscles in your thighs,

1787
03:24:32.559 --> 03:25:10.000
your knees, so relaxed, A carve muscles and just shins

1788
03:25:13.680 --> 03:27:25.920
co pusy four the feathing and your feet so peaceful,

1789
03:27:28.000 --> 03:28:24.200
so calm, so peaceful, so calm, so peaceful, so calm, so.

1790
03:28:26.200 --> 03:28:37.959
Peace f RelA sin.

1791
03:28:43.079 --> 03:29:02.239
Peace fall so cam loving that deep relaxation. Just spread

1792
03:29:02.559 --> 03:29:35.200
your chest and your stomach, letting go everything. So I'm

1793
03:29:35.239 --> 03:29:41.399
gonna start counting down now, from twenty down to one.

1794
03:29:47.360 --> 03:29:50.559
You can imagine in a way it's like just walking

1795
03:29:50.680 --> 03:29:56.520
down some steps and each step or twenty steps, and

1796
03:29:56.639 --> 03:30:09.639
each step represents eleven of comfort. Each step represents a

1797
03:30:09.879 --> 03:30:22.360
deepening of that comfort, and the fervies you walk down

1798
03:30:22.440 --> 03:30:27.840
those steps that the deeper and more relaxed you feel.

1799
03:30:34.600 --> 03:33:09.479
So starting with number twenty twenty, nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen

1800
03:34:25.000 --> 03:42:34.200
eight fourt fourteen too well five ey nine eight seven

1801
03:43:47.440 --> 03:51:20.120
y five four two one, And now as you focus

1802
03:51:20.239 --> 03:51:33.920
on your eyes, We're gonna count down from ten tout one,

1803
03:51:40.319 --> 03:51:49.879
focusing just on your eyes, your eyelids, the muscles around

1804
03:51:50.000 --> 03:52:01.440
your eyes, your eye walls themselves, our whole area that

1805
03:52:01.680 --> 03:52:15.719
makes up your eye. And as we count down from

1806
03:52:15.920 --> 03:52:30.280
ten down to one, whilst focusing on your eyes, you

1807
03:52:30.399 --> 03:52:41.120
will become twice is relaxed with each number counting down

1808
03:52:45.280 --> 03:52:52.239
that you may find the all you want to do

1809
03:52:52.719 --> 03:53:01.680
is just drift off to sleep. And if that's what

1810
03:53:01.959 --> 03:53:14.479
you want, then just allow yourself to do that. Now,

1811
03:53:17.440 --> 03:53:23.399
focus in on your eyes. I'm going to begin counting

1812
03:53:23.559 --> 03:54:07.280
down from ten down to one right now, ten nine

1813
03:54:41.600 --> 04:02:44.840
eight seven ye five four f three two one. So

1814
04:02:53.319 --> 04:03:01.440
count and down from ten to one ten nine eight

1815
04:03:04.319 --> 04:03:29.120
seven six five four three two one. And maybe that

1816
04:03:29.319 --> 04:03:33.440
was a bit too quick in order to relax. Maybe

1817
04:03:33.440 --> 04:03:37.760
it's a bit too fast for you to notice the

1818
04:03:39.079 --> 04:03:45.879
calming of your body, maybe even a little bit of

1819
04:03:46.000 --> 04:03:49.920
pressure there, Like you're counting down from ten to one.

1820
04:03:50.040 --> 04:03:53.440
Would you expect me to do? Man, expect me to

1821
04:03:53.479 --> 04:04:03.319
stick old floppy just because you're counting down. We could

1822
04:04:03.360 --> 04:04:07.120
try it again, but this time I go this lower.

1823
04:04:09.360 --> 04:04:14.559
This time, as you focus on the whole of your body,

1824
04:04:15.799 --> 04:04:22.840
before we focus on your legs, just notice how your

1825
04:04:22.920 --> 04:04:37.280
body does start to feel more relaxed with every number

1826
04:04:38.280 --> 04:05:18.760
that I count down ten nine, eight, seven, six, five

1827
04:05:29.159 --> 04:06:28.360
four three two one, And just notice how how you feel, generally,

1828
04:06:28.760 --> 04:06:43.079
how your body feels. It's not necessarily even about counting

1829
04:06:43.239 --> 04:06:50.319
down from ten to one. It's that space that you have,

1830
04:06:51.680 --> 04:07:10.120
that space between being active physically or mentally to just

1831
04:07:14.879 --> 04:07:20.040
sitting or lying down and just being there, not doing anything,

1832
04:07:20.239 --> 04:07:26.840
not saying anything, or needing to think about anything. So

1833
04:07:27.559 --> 04:07:30.559
it opens up a space, you know, a bit of

1834
04:07:30.639 --> 04:07:41.600
a space, a gap. And the more I comed down

1835
04:07:41.680 --> 04:07:49.040
from ten to one, the bigger that gap becomes. So

1836
04:07:49.159 --> 04:08:01.600
there's that gap of calmness, of comfort, relaxation. It's a

1837
04:08:01.719 --> 04:08:15.760
nice feeling, and it moves those stresses or discomforts physically

1838
04:08:15.920 --> 04:08:34.959
or emotionally, moves them away. Allows you to just slow down,

1839
04:08:38.600 --> 04:08:41.479
someone to count again from ten down to one, and

1840
04:08:41.680 --> 04:08:51.639
notice that gap widening the gap. And as it widens,

1841
04:08:51.719 --> 04:08:57.760
it's almost like the stress and attention falls into the

1842
04:08:57.840 --> 04:09:54.559
gap and gives you that distance, that space. Now ten nine, eight, seven, six,

1843
04:10:07.319 --> 04:10:37.879
five four three.

1844
04:10:53.959 --> 04:11:12.840
Two one.

1845
04:11:24.399 --> 04:11:28.799
Now, how does your body feel.

1846
04:11:30.719 --> 04:11:30.920
Now?

1847
04:11:43.639 --> 04:11:56.280
Can you notice that? Do you feeling calmer, the feeling

1848
04:11:58.639 --> 04:12:26.040
more relaxed as we now focus on your legs, just

1849
04:12:26.200 --> 04:12:47.559
your legs. We're just gonna start with focusing on your thighs.

1850
04:13:02.360 --> 04:13:06.680
Of course, it's not the most exciting thing to be doing,

1851
04:13:07.479 --> 04:13:13.840
because I'm sure, like most of your body is not

1852
04:13:13.920 --> 04:13:26.079
a lot going on right now. Just focusing on the

1853
04:13:26.239 --> 04:13:32.280
whole of your thighs, the tops of your thighs, the

1854
04:13:32.600 --> 04:13:39.239
sides of your thighs, the bottoms of your thighs, your

1855
04:13:39.360 --> 04:13:44.639
outer thighs, and your inner thighs. Basically the whole of

1856
04:13:44.719 --> 04:13:52.520
your thigh that leads into your hip and it goes

1857
04:13:53.559 --> 04:14:03.639
down to your knee joints. Now, this is a big area.

1858
04:14:08.159 --> 04:14:13.079
It's a very heavy area. It's very strong, probably the

1859
04:14:13.200 --> 04:14:27.920
strongest muscles in your body or in your thighs. But

1860
04:14:28.040 --> 04:14:36.360
I don't think we perhaps give enough attention to our thighs.

1861
04:14:42.319 --> 04:14:53.079
Perhaps we don't acknowledge how important our thighs are to

1862
04:14:53.239 --> 04:15:13.879
our lives, how much they actually do for us all

1863
04:15:13.959 --> 04:15:24.399
through our lives. And it may seem to sound really weird,

1864
04:15:24.520 --> 04:15:32.920
but I think that all of our body parts, especially

1865
04:15:33.040 --> 04:15:40.639
our thighs, need some TLC, a bit of love shown,

1866
04:15:41.639 --> 04:15:59.799
a bit of acknowledgement. I thank you gratitude for our

1867
04:16:00.079 --> 04:16:09.360
guys do for us. And I know this may sound

1868
04:16:09.440 --> 04:16:15.680
a bit strange. Maybe you think, why am I sure?

1869
04:16:15.760 --> 04:16:18.280
How I should be out in the garden hugging a

1870
04:16:18.399 --> 04:16:26.760
tree or something. Well, it's hard to set a microphone

1871
04:16:26.879 --> 04:16:29.879
up on a tree. That's why I'm doing this indoors.

1872
04:16:29.959 --> 04:16:33.440
Otherwise I would be outside hugging a tree. Now I

1873
04:16:33.520 --> 04:16:42.280
can't see the television from the tree. If you move

1874
04:16:42.360 --> 04:16:51.680
down to your knees gaining such an important part, and

1875
04:16:52.280 --> 04:16:56.760
I think we don't necessarily I'll speak for myself here,

1876
04:16:59.200 --> 04:17:03.760
I don't necessary I really appreciate all that my knees

1877
04:17:04.000 --> 04:17:09.159
do for me until I have a problem with my knee.

1878
04:17:10.159 --> 04:17:14.200
It's occasionally, if I ever maybe i'll pash it, or

1879
04:17:15.239 --> 04:17:20.760
it's aching for some reason. It's then that I realize

1880
04:17:21.920 --> 04:17:25.920
how much it does. You know, the benefit of being

1881
04:17:25.959 --> 04:17:33.879
able to use my legs without any kind of physical

1882
04:17:34.000 --> 04:17:42.200
discomfort is a beautiful thing that's possibly not appreciated until

1883
04:17:43.239 --> 04:17:52.959
it's temporarily removed. You know that's comfort. But as you

1884
04:17:53.079 --> 04:17:58.280
focus on your knees, regardless of how your knees feel,

1885
04:18:01.399 --> 04:18:07.120
you can have that sense of gratitude and love to

1886
04:18:07.239 --> 04:18:19.840
your knees for all that they do for you, and

1887
04:18:20.000 --> 04:18:23.639
you can still have that attention on your thighs and

1888
04:18:23.760 --> 04:18:29.959
maybe notice how your thighs feel. Maybe you've noticed that

1889
04:18:30.280 --> 04:18:49.000
they are relaxing more deeply as you focus now on

1890
04:18:49.120 --> 04:18:53.639
the bottoms of your legs, your shins, and your calf muscles,

1891
04:18:54.000 --> 04:19:01.840
and the bones between your knees and your feet, incorporating

1892
04:19:01.920 --> 04:19:12.840
of course, your ankles. So important. You know, anyone that's

1893
04:19:12.920 --> 04:19:18.920
had even like the slightest sprain of an ankle knows

1894
04:19:19.239 --> 04:19:31.159
how how much we take our ankles for granted. And

1895
04:19:31.280 --> 04:19:33.559
it's kind of strange in a way when you think that.

1896
04:19:36.120 --> 04:19:40.079
You know, logically, our wrists are a lot thinner than

1897
04:19:40.200 --> 04:19:44.319
the rest of our arms, which is okay, it doesn't

1898
04:19:44.959 --> 04:19:48.319
can't see any problem with that because we're just picking

1899
04:19:48.360 --> 04:19:55.760
stuff up. But our ankles so much thinner than the

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04:19:55.799 --> 04:20:06.079
rest of our legs, and from a physics perspective or

1901
04:20:06.239 --> 04:20:10.399
logical even it doesn't really make sense that all this

1902
04:20:10.680 --> 04:20:19.479
weight would ultimately be resting on your ankles then leading

1903
04:20:19.520 --> 04:20:32.440
to your feet. That thin area, thin bone. Yeah, it

1904
04:20:32.639 --> 04:20:38.520
does so much great work. Supports us, supports our body

1905
04:20:39.799 --> 04:20:50.280
for a lifetime, helps us to balance, helps you to

1906
04:20:54.319 --> 04:21:03.559
get around and be mobile. And there's the calf muscles.

1907
04:21:03.600 --> 04:21:11.200
Of course, when I was younger, I couldn't see the

1908
04:21:11.280 --> 04:21:16.360
point in calf muscles. It didn't seem to do anything. Okay,

1909
04:21:17.479 --> 04:21:21.000
if I walked around on tiptoes, then my calf muscles

1910
04:21:21.040 --> 04:21:24.559
get some work. But of course that's not true. The

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04:21:24.680 --> 04:21:29.079
calf muscles are being used whenever we use our legs

1912
04:21:34.680 --> 04:21:47.319
and your shins there to protect your lower legs, shaped

1913
04:21:47.360 --> 04:21:52.079
in a way, almost as a protector for the bone,

1914
04:21:59.600 --> 04:22:11.559
leading of course to your ankles and your feet. But

1915
04:22:11.639 --> 04:22:13.559
we're not going to focus on your feet. We're just

1916
04:22:13.639 --> 04:22:20.079
going to focus on the legs. I realize that now

1917
04:22:20.120 --> 04:22:24.719
that I've mentioned your feet, it probably focuses on them anyway,

1918
04:22:25.239 --> 04:22:27.799
So maybe I should focus on your feet a little bit.

1919
04:22:31.840 --> 04:22:36.280
You can have them in your awareness the same as

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04:22:36.360 --> 04:22:40.719
you have your thighs in your awareness. Even though we

1921
04:22:40.840 --> 04:22:46.760
haven't been focusing on your thighs a few minutes, we've

1922
04:22:46.799 --> 04:22:57.719
been focusing on your ankles, there's still that sensation of

1923
04:23:00.920 --> 04:23:13.680
comfort in your thighs in this that movement of energy,

1924
04:23:15.760 --> 04:23:22.799
because the thighs hold lots of different sensations. Of course,

1925
04:23:22.879 --> 04:23:27.600
there's the muscles, the big straw muscles, that we have

1926
04:23:27.840 --> 04:23:41.159
in our thighs. But the skin on the outside of

1927
04:23:41.239 --> 04:23:46.559
the thighs, as in the outside of all of our body,

1928
04:23:47.360 --> 04:23:58.920
can be very sensitive, sensitive to the touch, sensitive to temperature.

1929
04:24:05.479 --> 04:24:13.000
And inside your thighs the bones, there's the muscle, there's

1930
04:24:13.079 --> 04:24:17.840
the blood, vessels, the arch trees, it's all this stuff

1931
04:24:18.000 --> 04:24:26.680
that's inside your thighs. And I guess sometimes it'd be

1932
04:24:26.840 --> 04:24:30.920
nice if you could actually put your fingers inside your

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04:24:31.040 --> 04:24:37.239
thighs and a message, so you can message on the outside,

1934
04:24:37.479 --> 04:24:40.360
of course, but to be able to get deep into

1935
04:24:40.479 --> 04:24:45.280
the muscles and to be able to just message inside

1936
04:24:45.319 --> 04:24:52.360
your thighs, message in the bones of your leg, message

1937
04:24:52.399 --> 04:25:01.639
in all the veins, and just gently healing your thighs,

1938
04:25:05.559 --> 04:25:13.040
and you could move down messaging inside your knees, message

1939
04:25:13.079 --> 04:25:20.040
in those bones, but with healing fingertips spreading that healing

1940
04:25:20.280 --> 04:25:30.799
energy deep into the joints of your knees. Of course,

1941
04:25:30.879 --> 04:25:34.200
there's the back of your your knee, you know, the

1942
04:25:34.360 --> 04:25:41.360
inside crease where your knee is. It's a very sensitive area.

1943
04:25:43.399 --> 04:25:47.719
Very it feels very nice when you stroke it. That

1944
04:25:47.879 --> 04:25:51.559
might be because it's an area that's not really touched

1945
04:25:51.760 --> 04:25:58.360
very often. It's almost like a hidden part that crease

1946
04:26:00.479 --> 04:26:04.920
in your legs. It's almost it's like a part that

1947
04:26:06.760 --> 04:26:18.000
has a sensitivity, which is a little bit different. Of course,

1948
04:26:18.040 --> 04:26:28.559
it's protected by your legs. So you can imagine putting

1949
04:26:29.440 --> 04:26:39.760
your fingers into that crease in your legs. Folding between

1950
04:26:39.840 --> 04:26:44.920
your legs, you can just massage with your fingertips. Imagine

1951
04:26:44.920 --> 04:26:55.959
your fingertips going inside, massage in the muscle tissue. You

1952
04:26:56.040 --> 04:27:00.280
can of course feel the bones of your knee is

1953
04:27:01.680 --> 04:27:12.120
healing through your fingertips. And then as you go down

1954
04:27:15.000 --> 04:27:17.799
to your calf muscles. Now that's the part I'd like

1955
04:27:17.879 --> 04:27:22.559
to be able to really put my fingertips deep inside

1956
04:27:23.319 --> 04:27:32.280
my calf muscles, massage in every single tissue of that muscle,

1957
04:27:33.879 --> 04:27:43.799
healing every part. And then doing the same for my shins,

1958
04:27:47.000 --> 04:27:53.879
massage in and gently stroking the bones, gently stroking them,

1959
04:27:54.760 --> 04:27:58.879
healing in a loving way, because they deserve to be

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04:27:59.079 --> 04:28:06.280
treated as the precious bones that they are, because our

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04:28:06.399 --> 04:28:09.959
legs are so precious as in all the other parts

1962
04:28:10.040 --> 04:28:17.680
of our body, and more precious of any jure on

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04:28:17.799 --> 04:28:34.120
the planet. When you start to think about your legs

1964
04:28:34.280 --> 04:28:45.399
in this way, it can change your perspective. It might

1965
04:28:45.559 --> 04:28:52.159
sound a bit a bit silly to start with the

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04:28:52.319 --> 04:29:00.520
idea of having love for your legs, showing appreciation for

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04:29:00.639 --> 04:29:06.680
your thighs, wanting to be able to put your hands

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04:29:07.639 --> 04:29:16.440
in your thighs, massage the muscles and the bones, and

1969
04:29:16.559 --> 04:29:22.079
to get your fingers deep in there, releasing all tension.

1970
04:29:24.959 --> 04:29:33.559
Just to show how much you care about your legs,

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04:29:34.479 --> 04:29:38.200
how much you care for what your legs do for

1972
04:29:38.360 --> 04:29:51.959
you regularly, your knees, your calves, your ankles, the strength

1973
04:29:52.120 --> 04:30:00.200
of your ankles, considering how thin they are compared to

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04:30:00.280 --> 04:30:07.000
the rest of your legs, especially your thighs. Yeah, they're

1975
04:30:07.159 --> 04:30:19.399
so strong, so flexible, absolutely amazing things. Your ankles are

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04:30:23.280 --> 04:30:28.360
truly a gift because of what they do for you,

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04:30:33.840 --> 04:30:40.760
supporting all that weight, regardless of how what weight you are,

1978
04:30:41.959 --> 04:30:46.719
even if you only ate stone, there's still a lot

1979
04:30:46.799 --> 04:30:53.440
of weight for these little ankles. Now, I'm a lot

1980
04:30:53.680 --> 04:31:03.639
heavier than eight stone double down, yet my ankles support

1981
04:31:03.719 --> 04:31:11.079
my body all the time, or they do give off

1982
04:31:11.120 --> 04:31:16.559
a sigh of relief when I sit down, I have

1983
04:31:16.680 --> 04:31:25.559
my whole legs do my feet feet also go and

1984
04:31:25.680 --> 04:31:53.399
my toes clap. We're so happy. Your legs really are amazing,

1985
04:31:56.000 --> 04:31:56.440
and I know.

1986
04:31:56.879 --> 04:32:00.639
That about talking about your legs is probably.

1987
04:32:02.799 --> 04:32:07.440
Possibly among the most most boring things I've ever heard

1988
04:32:07.520 --> 04:32:15.879
anyone say. Possibly or boring or not, everything I said

1989
04:32:16.040 --> 04:32:32.680
is true. Your legs are amazing. Your legs deserve not

1990
04:32:33.079 --> 04:32:51.559
just respect, they deserve to relax deeply. They deserve to

1991
04:32:51.680 --> 04:32:56.920
take some time out of the day to just let

1992
04:32:57.120 --> 04:33:33.040
go completely. Your legs really can relax. And because the

1993
04:33:33.200 --> 04:33:37.680
legs are so such a most, you know, very important

1994
04:33:38.360 --> 04:33:42.880
part of your body. When you relax your legs, the

1995
04:33:43.000 --> 04:33:54.200
rest of your body also naturally follows in that journey

1996
04:33:54.360 --> 04:34:06.080
of comfort. I can feel it in my hips. My

1997
04:34:06.279 --> 04:34:13.599
hips feel really loose, and also my lwer back as well.

1998
04:34:15.639 --> 04:34:21.360
My lower back really feels it feels stretched, even though

1999
04:34:21.360 --> 04:34:25.000
I'm just sitting in a chair and there's no stretching

2000
04:34:27.720 --> 04:34:30.880
as far as I'm aware that I'm doing. It's almost

2001
04:34:30.919 --> 04:34:34.720
as if the muscles are just relaxed so much that

2002
04:34:34.840 --> 04:34:41.919
there is a natural stretch as the tension has reduced

2003
04:34:43.360 --> 04:35:01.919
a lot. And I'm now going to count down from

2004
04:35:02.560 --> 04:35:11.639
ten down to one, and you can continue to fill

2005
04:35:13.439 --> 04:35:45.880
wonderfully relaxed ten nine, eight, seven, six, five, four three

2006
04:35:50.000 --> 04:36:10.759
two one relax. So I'm just going to count down

2007
04:36:12.279 --> 04:36:16.959
from five down to one, and as I countdown, if

2008
04:36:17.000 --> 04:36:24.080
you just focus on the numbers, just the numbers counting down,

2009
04:36:25.119 --> 04:36:34.279
and notice how you feel in this moment as you

2010
04:36:34.400 --> 04:36:41.919
hear the numbers counting down, knowing that those numbers counting

2011
04:36:42.040 --> 04:36:52.159
down represent you feeling calmer, not just in your body,

2012
04:36:52.319 --> 04:37:00.680
but also relaxing your mind. Just notice how you phil

2013
04:37:01.599 --> 04:37:07.479
there's nothing to do, there's nothing to say, there's nothing

2014
04:37:07.639 --> 04:37:44.639
to think about, starting with number five, four, three, two.

2015
04:37:50.439 --> 04:37:50.680
One.

2016
04:38:00.119 --> 04:38:11.959
And as you notice the gradual letting go that the

2017
04:38:12.119 --> 04:38:19.720
tension in your body, you may also begin to notice

2018
04:38:19.840 --> 04:38:27.080
and be aware of how your mind is starting to

2019
04:38:28.400 --> 04:38:35.000
slow down. This is just a natural thing that happens.

2020
04:38:37.639 --> 04:38:42.799
It's not really a special procedure. It's just natural because

2021
04:38:42.880 --> 04:38:48.799
as your body relaxes, your mind also starts to relax.

2022
04:38:50.400 --> 04:38:54.040
And the more your mind relaxes, the more your body relaxes.

2023
04:38:54.159 --> 04:39:04.680
It's just a continuous circle of relaxation. And there's that

2024
04:39:05.959 --> 04:39:13.799
calmness that comes from relative quietness. You know, even even

2025
04:39:13.840 --> 04:39:20.799
if there's background sounds either your side, online, it's still

2026
04:39:21.319 --> 04:39:26.599
going to be quite calm. You know, you haven't got

2027
04:39:26.639 --> 04:39:31.799
the television on, there's no music in the background unless

2028
04:39:31.840 --> 04:39:39.240
you're listening to the recording with music. Of course, you're

2029
04:39:39.439 --> 04:39:41.520
very likely not going to be sitting in a room

2030
04:39:41.599 --> 04:39:46.159
with other people. Of course you might be, but generally

2031
04:39:46.360 --> 04:39:49.479
it's more ideal if you can do this on your own,

2032
04:39:51.200 --> 04:40:01.240
so no distractions, and when you stop thinking about stuff,

2033
04:40:07.840 --> 04:40:18.080
relaxation automatically rises, a sense of comfort starts to grow,

2034
04:40:22.599 --> 04:40:29.279
and without trying to build it up into something fantastical

2035
04:40:29.680 --> 04:40:41.439
or something magical, this is just a natural process, something

2036
04:40:41.599 --> 04:40:51.759
that's easy to accomplish. In fact, it's almost you know,

2037
04:40:51.880 --> 04:40:58.720
the sense of relaxing completely happens really when you put

2038
04:40:58.919 --> 04:41:02.520
no effort in to it. It's not something that you

2039
04:41:02.639 --> 04:41:13.840
can really force. It's something that happens naturally. And part

2040
04:41:14.439 --> 04:41:23.279
of the process of this recording and others is simply

2041
04:41:24.959 --> 04:41:37.119
two allow you to take advantage of this space this time.

2042
04:41:40.000 --> 04:41:51.000
It's just let go to just be here, to be

2043
04:41:51.639 --> 04:42:05.080
in tune with how you feel, yet with the intention

2044
04:42:07.319 --> 04:42:18.759
of wanting to relax deeply and maybe even to fall asleep,

2045
04:42:19.919 --> 04:42:25.080
depending on what it is that you wish for yourself

2046
04:42:26.880 --> 04:42:41.919
in this moment. As we know, relaxing is the majority

2047
04:42:43.159 --> 04:42:47.599
of the process of falling asleep. The actual falling asleep

2048
04:42:47.720 --> 04:42:54.479
part is the tiny bit at the end, the deeper

2049
04:42:55.799 --> 04:43:08.599
relaxed do you become, the easier you find yourself drifting.

2050
04:43:18.159 --> 04:43:24.799
You can also, if you choose, stay focused on my

2051
04:43:25.000 --> 04:43:53.919
voice and really enjoy the process, gradually relaxing each muscle

2052
04:43:58.520 --> 04:44:25.439
in your body effortlessly and just observing the sensation of

2053
04:44:25.680 --> 04:44:41.279
letting go completely. This time, I'm going to count from

2054
04:44:41.520 --> 04:44:51.680
six down to one, and you can notice your mind

2055
04:44:54.319 --> 04:45:02.560
calming down more with each number, do you hear me say,

2056
04:45:07.279 --> 04:46:10.959
naturally feeling calm and slow and peaceful, six, five, four,

2057
04:46:43.040 --> 04:48:17.360
three two one, being aware of how your mind has

2058
04:48:17.680 --> 04:48:46.119
slowed right down, sinking deeply into relaxation. And as you

2059
04:48:46.319 --> 04:48:54.959
focus on your mind, you may notice that there are

2060
04:48:55.119 --> 04:49:05.279
some thoughts still there, maybe some stubborn thoughts that for

2061
04:49:05.439 --> 04:49:18.520
some reason perhaps need your attention. That's what you can

2062
04:49:18.680 --> 04:49:32.040
do is send love to those thoughts. Sprinkle those thoughts

2063
04:49:36.560 --> 04:49:42.439
with love like all petals from a flower. Just sprinkle

2064
04:49:42.479 --> 04:49:49.560
it over them, petals filled with love towards those thoughts,

2065
04:49:50.200 --> 04:49:56.520
to let those thoughts know that you're not abandoned in them.

2066
04:49:57.959 --> 04:50:05.759
You just need them. You require them to just calm down,

2067
04:50:08.040 --> 04:50:25.439
slow down, quiet down for now. So as you focus

2068
04:50:25.560 --> 04:50:30.840
on those remaining thoughts. As we count down this time

2069
04:50:30.959 --> 04:50:39.400
from seven down to one. With each number, just imagine

2070
04:50:39.520 --> 04:50:55.639
sprinkling those flower petals of love, kindness, gratitude over those thoughts,

2071
04:51:00.759 --> 04:51:06.959
which will allow them to just melt away and relax deeply.

2072
04:51:11.119 --> 04:51:25.560
With every number, those thoughts will become more and more relaxed,

2073
04:51:31.159 --> 04:54:02.279
starting with number seven, six, five, four, three, one. And

2074
04:54:02.520 --> 04:54:19.919
as you now notice how relaxed your feeling in your body,

2075
04:54:28.319 --> 04:54:41.520
we're going to focus on your hands, because the more

2076
04:54:41.639 --> 04:54:48.680
relaxed your hands are, the more relaxed your body and

2077
04:54:49.000 --> 04:55:10.560
mind are. And you focus on your hands and your fingers,

2078
04:55:16.080 --> 04:55:20.840
there's nothing needed to be done. There's no clenching of

2079
04:55:21.159 --> 04:55:25.479
fists or tents in the fingers or anything like that.

2080
04:55:32.919 --> 04:55:47.159
It's just noticing and focusing on your hands, noticing how

2081
04:55:47.240 --> 04:56:11.959
they feel. Because the more relaxed your hands feel, the

2082
04:56:12.240 --> 04:56:21.599
calmer your mind feels, and the more comfort you feel

2083
04:56:23.720 --> 04:56:49.080
throughout your body. And you may have already noticed your

2084
04:56:53.439 --> 04:57:24.279
mind is darting to dress like since just on your

2085
04:57:24.439 --> 04:57:42.759
hands and fingers allowing them to experience are real deepening

2086
04:57:44.000 --> 04:57:58.840
of that relaxation in your hands and fingers more and

2087
04:57:59.119 --> 04:58:18.240
more lax with each number from eight down to one,

2088
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you can almost feel that healing and relaxing energy spreading

2089
04:58:34.360 --> 04:58:53.319
into your hands and fingers, becoming year more relaxing with

2090
04:58:53.759 --> 04:59:07.479
each number you hear, going down eight, down to one,

2091
04:59:11.680 --> 05:00:43.319
to drift in, to drifting again starting with number eight, seven, six.

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Five, four.

2093
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Three, Just being here now, nothing to think about, nothing

2094
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to do, nothing to say, and everything just feels calmer.

2095
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And this is your natural state of being. This is

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how you just normally feel when you take off way

2097
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all that other stuff that we add, you know, things

2098
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like stress and worrying and overthinking and anxiety, tension, just

2099
05:04:24.479 --> 05:04:31.040
generally thinking about stuff. When you take that away, which

2100
05:04:31.119 --> 05:04:40.279
is what we do what we do now, you're left

2101
05:04:40.439 --> 05:04:51.319
with a real sense of peacefulness which comes to you

2102
05:04:51.599 --> 05:05:05.520
very quickly because ultimately it's just a feeling, a feeling

2103
05:05:06.599 --> 05:05:13.759
of comfort. It's almost as if you've gone inside yourself

2104
05:05:13.840 --> 05:05:25.479
and you've found a special place where everything is peaceful,

2105
05:05:28.400 --> 05:05:33.799
a place where you can feel relaxed and your natural

2106
05:05:35.959 --> 05:05:42.279
sense of comfort, a place where you can be you,

2107
05:05:47.000 --> 05:05:54.000
where you can accept yourself for who you are, a

2108
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place where you're not trying to please anybody else ever,

2109
05:06:04.599 --> 05:06:13.159
a place where you can actually not just love yourself

2110
05:06:13.279 --> 05:06:18.720
but in some ways. More importantly, you can like yourself,

2111
05:06:21.240 --> 05:06:38.520
appreciate who you are. That sense of gratitude is in

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the air all around you. That's also a place where

2113
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you can actually feel the healing energy soaking into your body.

2114
05:07:06.840 --> 05:07:18.200
Healing energy soaking into your body, and that healing energy

2115
05:07:18.599 --> 05:07:28.880
spreads through your veins, traveling to each and every single

2116
05:07:29.319 --> 05:07:39.720
part of your body, and you start to realize that

2117
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actually that healing energy, it's not just entered into your brain,

2118
05:07:50.159 --> 05:07:59.639
it's become part of your brain, and that spinal fluid

2119
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is now mixed with healing energy, not just allowing you

2120
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to feel so much more relaxed and healthy in this moment,

2121
05:08:25.880 --> 05:08:35.319
but also you start to realize that actually, what's happening

2122
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now with that healing, relaxing energy spreading through your body,

2123
05:08:45.959 --> 05:08:56.799
it's actually changing your life. It's actually changing the way

2124
05:08:56.919 --> 05:09:03.520
you're going to feel not just now, but tomorrow and

2125
05:09:03.599 --> 05:09:12.560
the next day. As your health improves, not just your

2126
05:09:12.639 --> 05:09:20.400
physical health but your mental health. Things that used to

2127
05:09:20.599 --> 05:09:26.680
bother you in the past, for some reason, no longer

2128
05:09:28.040 --> 05:09:34.560
have the effect that they used to because something has

2129
05:09:35.040 --> 05:09:48.040
changed deep within you. Maybe things that used to cause

2130
05:09:48.159 --> 05:10:00.159
you to feel anger no longer have that power to

2131
05:10:00.279 --> 05:10:05.880
control you the way they seem to be able to before.

2132
05:10:09.599 --> 05:10:20.360
As you realize that you're the one who decides what

2133
05:10:20.720 --> 05:10:32.439
affects you, You're the one who decides to feel relaxed

2134
05:10:33.279 --> 05:10:46.040
and calm when you choose to enjoy noticing these natural

2135
05:10:47.119 --> 05:11:00.439
developments of healing, continuing to grow and improve your life

2136
05:11:01.840 --> 05:11:13.639
day by day, including of course, your ability to relax

2137
05:11:14.319 --> 05:11:28.759
so much easier and sleeping. It is the most natural

2138
05:11:29.040 --> 05:11:39.560
thing in the world to you, because falling asleep is

2139
05:11:39.680 --> 05:11:47.840
something that you've done so many times in your life,

2140
05:11:51.080 --> 05:11:55.119
and you know that you were born, as we all were,

2141
05:11:55.919 --> 05:12:05.400
with the ability to fall asleep, but naturally we were

2142
05:12:05.520 --> 05:12:17.639
born with that ability to just drift off into a deep,

2143
05:12:18.959 --> 05:12:30.720
healing sleep. Even when we're kids, sometimes will fall asleep

2144
05:12:30.799 --> 05:12:35.680
when we don't even want to try to stay awake.

2145
05:12:37.040 --> 05:12:40.479
Maybe it's a birthday in the morning, or it's Christmas

2146
05:12:40.680 --> 05:12:44.479
or holiday or something we look forward to. We don't

2147
05:12:44.520 --> 05:12:49.119
want to go to sleep. But the more we want

2148
05:12:49.159 --> 05:12:54.319
to stay awake, the more we just start to drift.

2149
05:12:58.479 --> 05:13:02.599
And the more you fight drifting while we try to

2150
05:13:02.720 --> 05:13:07.680
stop yourself and drift in a shape, the deeper and

2151
05:13:07.919 --> 05:13:19.479
stronger that drifting becomes because we're born not just with

2152
05:13:19.720 --> 05:13:26.119
the need to relax deeply and to naturally fall asleep,

2153
05:13:29.360 --> 05:13:42.680
but it's our birthright, it's part of our DNA. And

2154
05:13:42.919 --> 05:13:48.439
sometimes as we get older in life, perhaps at times

2155
05:13:49.319 --> 05:14:02.319
we have forgotten that relaxing completely. It's not only a

2156
05:14:02.560 --> 05:14:26.799
wonderfully pleasant experience, it's also really easy. It's very, very

2157
05:14:27.319 --> 05:14:33.119
easy to let go, because that's all it is. It's

2158
05:14:33.360 --> 05:14:48.000
just deciding to let go. And when you press the

2159
05:14:48.159 --> 05:14:58.520
play button on my recordings, you have given permission for

2160
05:14:58.720 --> 05:15:07.119
my voice to relax you. When you press that play button,

2161
05:15:08.119 --> 05:15:19.080
you've given me permission for my words to affect you

2162
05:15:19.759 --> 05:15:36.240
in a positive, only a positive way, opening up your

2163
05:15:36.360 --> 05:15:59.119
mind too useful and healing suggestions that can have such

2164
05:15:59.119 --> 05:16:06.279
an amazing in effect on how you feel right now,

2165
05:16:11.080 --> 05:16:20.880
as well as those changes that continue long after the

2166
05:16:21.000 --> 05:16:31.680
recording ends, those changes within you to continue to flourish

2167
05:16:32.520 --> 05:16:47.119
and grow, transforming your life in a positive, beautiful way,

2168
05:16:50.200 --> 05:16:57.240
allowing you to move forward in your life in the

2169
05:16:57.400 --> 05:17:14.639
direction that you choose for yourself. And this feeling, this

2170
05:17:14.919 --> 05:17:30.479
feeling that you can experience of safety, comfort, calmness, this

2171
05:17:30.799 --> 05:17:44.400
feels so nice. It's such a healthy place to be,

2172
05:17:52.319 --> 05:18:06.080
and that positivity grows within you. Each and every day

2173
05:18:09.159 --> 05:18:18.959
moving forward, you're going to find that you're more relaxed

2174
05:18:21.319 --> 05:18:33.639
physically and in your mind is more relaxed. And it's

2175
05:18:33.720 --> 05:18:39.240
not that you're thinking slower. It's just that your mind

2176
05:18:39.360 --> 05:18:51.240
will be less clogged up with unnecessary negativity because from

2177
05:18:51.319 --> 05:19:01.639
now on, your mind rejects negativity. From now on, you're

2178
05:19:01.680 --> 05:19:12.479
going to start noticing when negativity arises, and you can

2179
05:19:12.680 --> 05:19:26.599
just say stop, stop, and that negativity will turn around

2180
05:19:27.240 --> 05:19:46.599
and leave you alone. Stop and that negativity will disappear.

2181
05:19:54.759 --> 05:20:01.240
And as you notice that you feel way more relaxed

2182
05:20:02.680 --> 05:20:18.000
than you probably expected, you can now congratulate yourself because

2183
05:20:18.240 --> 05:20:24.599
you're the person that has done this. You are the

2184
05:20:24.759 --> 05:20:30.520
one that has opened your mind up to the simple facts.

2185
05:20:33.880 --> 05:20:38.919
You can feel more relaxed in your body and in

2186
05:20:39.080 --> 05:20:51.080
your mind. You've opened your mind up to the birthright

2187
05:20:51.240 --> 05:20:59.799
of being able to just fall asleep easily when you choose.

2188
05:21:08.520 --> 05:21:15.680
And that's a nice feeling. Don't you think it feels nice?

2189
05:21:15.799 --> 05:21:25.119
Doesn't it? To feel calm? All that healing energy is

2190
05:21:25.240 --> 05:21:36.119
spreading through your body and your mind to spend time

2191
05:21:36.360 --> 05:21:47.159
in a special place where negativity can no longer enter.

2192
05:21:53.599 --> 05:22:02.799
Negativity is banned. It's bad, it's not allowed. Intrigue doesn't

2193
05:22:03.080 --> 05:22:07.560
it doesn't. This doesn't deserve to be here, doesn't belong here.

2194
05:22:11.279 --> 05:22:26.159
Negativity has no place in your life. Which makes room

2195
05:22:26.360 --> 05:22:57.360
feel more comfort, more healing, more relaxation, more peace. It

2196
05:22:57.400 --> 05:22:58.720
feels nice, doesn't it?

2197
05:23:00.560 --> 05:23:04.759
Just the let go.

2198
05:23:06.680 --> 05:23:26.119
With everything. I'm going to count down now from twenty

2199
05:23:26.360 --> 05:23:36.040
down to one. You can continue to relax. If you choose,

2200
05:23:36.439 --> 05:23:50.000
you can drift to sleep with every number you hear

2201
05:23:50.159 --> 05:24:01.720
me say, you can fill twice as relaxed, or if

2202
05:24:01.759 --> 05:26:17.880
you choose, you can fill twice sleeping now. Twenty nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six,

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05:26:26.360 --> 05:27:12.200
five four. This is your time to just take a break,

2204
05:27:16.880 --> 05:27:27.919
your time to relax, to allow your mind to slow down,

2205
05:27:36.599 --> 05:27:50.639
to give yourself permission to take a break from everything.

2206
05:27:55.360 --> 05:27:59.840
And you're the only person that can make that decision.

2207
05:28:02.720 --> 05:28:05.479
You're the only person that can actually tell your mind

2208
05:28:10.279 --> 05:28:34.520
to just relax, to just take some time off so

2209
05:28:34.680 --> 05:28:39.520
that you can focus on your body, getting in touch

2210
05:28:39.840 --> 05:28:54.520
with how you feel physically, and in the process of

2211
05:28:57.319 --> 05:29:02.040
this body scan where you focus on different parts of

2212
05:29:02.119 --> 05:29:12.919
your body, those parts that you focus on and observe.

2213
05:29:15.880 --> 05:29:24.240
Even though you're not purposely requesting for those parts of

2214
05:29:24.319 --> 05:29:31.840
your body to relax, it's kind of expected. You expect

2215
05:29:33.200 --> 05:29:40.840
when you listen to my voice to feel more relaxed naturally,

2216
05:29:46.400 --> 05:29:54.799
because when you're listening to me, your attention is focused

2217
05:29:56.560 --> 05:30:07.759
on my words, and as my words guide you to

2218
05:30:07.919 --> 05:30:20.279
focus on those parts of your body, your focus increases,

2219
05:30:27.400 --> 05:30:43.720
which actually calms your mind. And when your mind calms down,

2220
05:30:48.599 --> 05:31:10.680
your body relaxes. And when you body calms down, your

2221
05:31:10.840 --> 05:31:27.720
mind relaxes. And even though I've not really started the

2222
05:31:27.840 --> 05:31:40.520
focus on your body, you can already feel that healing

2223
05:31:40.799 --> 05:31:55.639
energy spreading through your body, pushing out stress and tension.

2224
05:31:59.400 --> 05:32:00.200
Healing.

2225
05:32:01.840 --> 05:32:08.599
All the parts of your body, including your skin, your bones,

2226
05:32:10.159 --> 05:32:16.360
your blood, all of your organs inside your body, all

2227
05:32:16.400 --> 05:32:22.919
of the muscles, all of the fat, all of everything,

2228
05:32:24.799 --> 05:32:30.959
every hair on your body is filled with that healing energy.

2229
05:32:39.000 --> 05:32:54.720
And when your brain fills with that healing energy, the

2230
05:32:54.959 --> 05:33:19.360
feeling of comfort and relaxation increases, deeply increases in a

2231
05:33:19.479 --> 05:33:34.360
way to your mind starts to feel perhaps bit drowsy

2232
05:33:39.639 --> 05:33:46.599
because it's not needed, and it may start.

2233
05:33:49.520 --> 05:33:50.520
To drift.

2234
05:33:58.959 --> 05:34:05.639
If that's what's needed. So if you're listening to this

2235
05:34:07.720 --> 05:34:11.959
and what you need is deep relaxation, that's what you'll get.

2236
05:34:14.159 --> 05:34:21.040
If what you need is to fall asleep naturally and

2237
05:34:21.240 --> 05:34:29.840
easily as your mind drifts, that's also what will happen.

2238
05:34:35.520 --> 05:34:43.240
Because by pressing that play button on the podcast and

2239
05:34:43.560 --> 05:34:49.880
listening to me, you give permission for your body and

2240
05:34:50.000 --> 05:35:01.759
your mind. In fact, you give the command on to

2241
05:35:01.880 --> 05:35:12.840
your body and your mind to relax deeply and to

2242
05:35:13.040 --> 05:35:22.439
drift off to sleep if that's what you want or need.

2243
05:35:30.119 --> 05:35:35.759
And as I focus on the different parts of your body,

2244
05:35:40.759 --> 05:35:49.560
you may start to just drift. And then you come

2245
05:35:49.680 --> 05:35:54.919
back again and you hear me talking, and I'm focusing

2246
05:35:55.080 --> 05:36:03.520
on a different parts of your body, and you may

2247
05:36:05.599 --> 05:36:14.639
find yourself drifting. You don't realize you're drifting until you

2248
05:36:14.840 --> 05:36:23.159
stop drifting and you're alert again to my voice focusing

2249
05:36:24.319 --> 05:36:29.119
on a different part of your body starts to relax

2250
05:36:29.319 --> 05:36:41.799
even deeper, because that drifting is basically you already in

2251
05:36:41.959 --> 05:36:52.279
the sleep zone. And the more you drift, the longer

2252
05:36:52.400 --> 05:37:02.200
you drift, and the longer you drift, eventually that drifting

2253
05:37:02.400 --> 05:37:14.279
continues into sleep, and that's the last you remember until

2254
05:37:14.319 --> 05:37:23.279
you wake up in your own time when you experience

2255
05:37:23.599 --> 05:37:30.959
the right amount of sleep for you, because when you

2256
05:37:31.159 --> 05:37:40.279
do and if you do fall asleep, it's extremely pleasant,

2257
05:37:43.040 --> 05:38:04.360
so relaxing, so deep, healing sleep. It feels so nice

2258
05:38:06.560 --> 05:38:16.479
to relax into your own body and mind as you

2259
05:38:16.680 --> 05:38:24.479
feel that heathing energy is spreading through it, relaxing news

2260
05:38:24.639 --> 05:38:46.200
so deeply, relaxing, use so so deeply. As we start

2261
05:38:46.400 --> 05:39:02.360
to focus on your eyes, moving down to you chure,

2262
05:39:10.319 --> 05:39:52.759
down to your neck, your shoulders, arms, hands, fingers, your chest,

2263
05:39:58.840 --> 05:40:32.840
the stomach, your back, your spine, you it's your legs,

2264
05:40:40.720 --> 05:41:16.479
your feet, you chose and feeling feeting spreading and growing

2265
05:41:18.080 --> 05:41:30.479
inside your body, feeling you up. Now let's focus again

2266
05:41:32.759 --> 05:41:40.840
on parts of your body, focusing this time on your forehead.

2267
05:41:47.319 --> 05:41:56.599
Now on your mouth, your lips, your tongue, the whole

2268
05:41:56.680 --> 05:42:18.439
of your mouth. Focus in on your fingers. Maybe you

2269
05:42:18.560 --> 05:42:22.599
could move your fingers a little bit so you can

2270
05:42:23.680 --> 05:42:38.360
focus on each one individually, both hands, and even though

2271
05:42:38.560 --> 05:42:43.599
as you focus on both of your hands now they

2272
05:42:43.680 --> 05:42:51.840
almost seem to just melt into one. Where there is

2273
05:42:51.880 --> 05:42:59.479
your right hand, start in your left hand and almost

2274
05:42:59.599 --> 05:43:11.200
as it h just mixed together. Now focusing on your knees,

2275
05:43:17.080 --> 05:43:40.080
just noticing how your knees feel. Now, focusing on your elbows,

2276
05:43:42.840 --> 05:43:55.279
focusing on both of your elbows, just observing the feeling

2277
05:43:57.959 --> 05:44:29.880
of your elbows. Now, focusing absurving the back of your neck,

2278
05:44:39.840 --> 05:45:17.479
feeding the energy on the back of your neck, Observing

2279
05:45:19.840 --> 05:45:39.159
your ankles, being aware of physical sensations in your ankles,

2280
05:46:39.200 --> 05:46:50.840
not to sin now your toast. I'm going for your feet,

2281
05:46:57.880 --> 05:47:43.400
being aware how you toast feel right now. Notice then

2282
05:47:53.560 --> 05:48:24.599
how you entire body feels. Noticing your mind feels now,

2283
05:48:42.680 --> 05:49:25.080
letting go, letting go, letting go everything, letting go, letting go,

2284
05:49:32.959 --> 05:50:00.560
letting go everything, everything. Where can it start now? And

2285
05:50:00.840 --> 05:50:03.000
I'd like you just, first of all, just to see

2286
05:50:03.040 --> 05:50:11.240
yourself lying down on that message table, lying on your front.

2287
05:50:12.479 --> 05:50:20.439
Your head is supported, your arms are supported, and you

2288
05:50:20.520 --> 05:50:27.159
feel comfortable and breathing is really easy, and you feel

2289
05:50:30.680 --> 05:50:33.680
you feel confident in how you look as well. So

2290
05:50:34.119 --> 05:50:38.279
there's none of that issue of body problems or shyness,

2291
05:50:39.159 --> 05:50:47.279
because I'm a professional and this is a therapy session,

2292
05:50:48.119 --> 05:50:56.040
so none of that stuff matters whatsoever. This is about you.

2293
05:50:58.919 --> 05:51:04.680
This is about how you feel and how you can

2294
05:51:06.119 --> 05:51:11.759
enjoy that sense of comfort and relaxation. That comes from

2295
05:51:13.159 --> 05:51:18.799
letting go and allowing my hands and my fingers to

2296
05:51:18.919 --> 05:51:30.360
relax you by a message your body. So I want

2297
05:51:30.400 --> 05:51:35.360
to start off just by placing my hands on the

2298
05:51:35.400 --> 05:51:40.319
back of your head, just gently, just you can feel

2299
05:51:40.479 --> 05:51:48.919
what my hands feel like really on you. So you

2300
05:51:49.000 --> 05:51:51.240
can maybe feel the warmth of my hands on the

2301
05:51:51.319 --> 05:51:57.040
back of your head. With my hands to the side

2302
05:51:57.080 --> 05:52:01.680
of your head, not pressing, but just holding there very gently,

2303
05:52:04.639 --> 05:52:07.680
maybe over your ears, and a little bit on your face,

2304
05:52:08.919 --> 05:52:14.119
just so you can feel my hands so you can

2305
05:52:14.200 --> 05:52:27.439
become accustomed to them. And now put my hands on

2306
05:52:27.479 --> 05:52:31.720
the back of your head again and gently let them

2307
05:52:31.880 --> 05:52:44.240
slide down onto the back of your neck. You can

2308
05:52:44.319 --> 05:52:54.400
feel my hands gently stroking the back of your neck

2309
05:52:54.599 --> 05:53:03.520
to start with. You can get used to the feeling

2310
05:53:03.680 --> 05:53:11.240
with my hands on your skin, get accustomed to realize

2311
05:53:11.319 --> 05:53:15.560
that you're safe and it's all good, it's all fine.

2312
05:53:21.959 --> 05:53:26.040
And I'm going to start gently messaging the muscles in

2313
05:53:26.119 --> 05:53:41.959
the back of your neck with both hands. Now, this

2314
05:53:42.080 --> 05:53:48.319
is a very trusting situation really, because our necks are

2315
05:53:48.400 --> 05:53:53.599
so fragile and to have someone have their hands around

2316
05:53:53.680 --> 05:53:58.799
your neck in that way can sometimes be problematic for people,

2317
05:54:00.080 --> 05:54:04.479
which is why massages are quite good because it allows

2318
05:54:04.560 --> 05:54:14.479
you to relax and to get in touch with trust,

2319
05:54:18.799 --> 05:54:30.639
to feel peaceful and calm. And there's a massage the

2320
05:54:30.959 --> 05:54:38.959
sides of your neck gently moving from the bottom of

2321
05:54:39.040 --> 05:54:42.720
your neck. It would be sort of near where your

2322
05:54:42.799 --> 05:54:48.479
shoulders start, I guess, all the way up to your jaw,

2323
05:54:50.279 --> 05:54:53.799
your ears, kind of area that side of your neck.

2324
05:54:56.560 --> 05:54:59.159
Of course, it's a lot longer than the front of

2325
05:54:59.200 --> 05:55:15.319
your neck. The message in the back of your neck,

2326
05:55:19.159 --> 05:55:27.959
especially that area where perhaps we hold tension, and as

2327
05:55:28.040 --> 05:55:32.680
that area's message, you can actually feel a sense of

2328
05:55:32.840 --> 05:55:40.880
release in the back of your neck, and maybe you

2329
05:55:41.040 --> 05:55:42.520
can breathe it out as well.

2330
05:55:45.119 --> 05:55:47.799
Notice how it feels. Notice how you feel.

2331
05:55:57.680 --> 05:56:01.279
Then moving down to that area between your neck and

2332
05:56:01.360 --> 05:56:11.520
your shoulders, that musty area, starting to message that area

2333
05:56:11.599 --> 05:56:15.919
on both sides. I mean, this would be the area

2334
05:56:16.040 --> 05:56:18.599
that a lot of people would message if they were

2335
05:56:18.639 --> 05:56:23.599
going to give you like a shoulder message. Even that's

2336
05:56:23.959 --> 05:56:27.400
not technically the shoulders, but it's all the muscles that

2337
05:56:27.560 --> 05:56:33.759
lead to the shoulders from the neck and a game

2338
05:56:33.880 --> 05:56:40.919
that can hold tension and stress. And when massaged sometimes

2339
05:56:40.959 --> 05:56:47.959
a nice deep message is useful and you decide how

2340
05:56:48.200 --> 05:57:06.119
deep that message is, and just allow my knuckles just

2341
05:57:06.240 --> 05:57:10.360
to dig in to get to those muscles and to

2342
05:57:10.599 --> 05:57:22.799
read relaxed all the time being firm yet gentle with

2343
05:57:23.000 --> 05:57:41.599
you and just stroking down the area to your actual shoulders,

2344
05:57:43.880 --> 05:57:53.479
moving to the muscles of your shoulders, and maybe initially

2345
05:57:53.680 --> 05:57:57.720
just pulling up the shoulders a little bit of the

2346
05:57:57.840 --> 05:58:01.479
table just to get you're a little bit of a stretch,

2347
05:58:03.279 --> 05:58:11.959
but very gently, and you've got the muscles at the

2348
05:58:12.040 --> 05:58:23.959
front of your shoulders the sides of the back. Again,

2349
05:58:24.240 --> 05:58:26.159
this is a part that can really.

2350
05:58:27.439 --> 05:58:30.959
Take quite a bit of pressure, quite a bit of.

2351
05:58:34.720 --> 05:58:41.680
Needing. If if you wish to really release the tension

2352
05:58:43.680 --> 05:58:50.560
to really get into those muscles and let your fingers

2353
05:58:50.639 --> 05:58:57.000
in there. They can feel really nice. Sometimes just being

2354
05:58:57.240 --> 05:59:07.479
stroked gently or being massaged quite strongly, it can all

2355
05:59:07.560 --> 05:59:18.000
be beneficial to the reaxation. Put the muscles in your shoulders.

2356
05:59:27.880 --> 05:59:37.720
Now to move down your arms, we do one arm

2357
05:59:37.799 --> 05:59:48.200
at a time, starting with your right arm. Well, ideas

2358
05:59:48.360 --> 05:59:52.639
I just lift your arm up, just hold it to

2359
05:59:52.759 --> 05:59:58.119
the side of you that where it still be attached,

2360
06:00:00.119 --> 06:00:14.799
and not just message the tops of your arms all

2361
06:00:14.840 --> 06:00:32.479
the way down to your forearms into your wrists gently

2362
06:00:32.840 --> 06:00:45.479
massaging that parts, the softer part, which is the under

2363
06:00:45.599 --> 06:00:51.200
part of the arm, which leads to the crease in

2364
06:00:51.279 --> 06:01:07.279
your robo the inside. It's much more sensitive skin sometimes

2365
06:01:07.400 --> 06:01:16.840
just having that stroked and I feel really nice, pleasurable

2366
06:01:17.119 --> 06:01:36.200
and relaxing. Now moving down to your right hand, just

2367
06:01:36.439 --> 06:01:48.799
holding your hand in both of my hands, just pressing

2368
06:01:48.959 --> 06:01:55.000
gently on the back of your hand and stretching your

2369
06:01:55.119 --> 06:02:05.959
fingers ever so lightly at the same time, pressing down

2370
06:02:06.040 --> 06:02:19.240
and massaging each finger, and then starting to massage the

2371
06:02:19.439 --> 06:02:32.080
palms of the hand. Just turning the hand gently, stretching

2372
06:02:32.200 --> 06:02:41.720
it gently, and actually having your hand held can really

2373
06:02:41.880 --> 06:02:49.360
be an emotional experience sometimes even if it is a stranger.

2374
06:02:51.360 --> 06:02:55.000
So when you don't know very well, like a massage

2375
06:02:55.279 --> 06:03:08.799
person or a therapist, maybe is this intimate and you

2376
06:03:08.880 --> 06:03:21.639
can feel nice, you can feel safe. And as I

2377
06:03:21.759 --> 06:03:30.240
put that right arm back down where it was, we

2378
06:03:30.639 --> 06:03:37.159
did the same with your left arm, exactly the same,

2379
06:03:41.840 --> 06:03:46.520
massage in the muscles in your arm all the way

2380
06:03:46.639 --> 06:03:54.840
down to your wrist, stroking the inside of your arm,

2381
06:04:00.360 --> 06:04:13.840
just being gentle or as firm as you require, and

2382
06:04:13.959 --> 06:04:30.360
then massaging your left hand, stretching the fingers gently massaging

2383
06:04:30.639 --> 06:04:50.360
the palm of your left hand. You feel so so relaxing,

2384
06:04:58.040 --> 06:05:15.799
so comforting, and just rest your left down. Back down.

2385
06:05:23.360 --> 06:05:30.000
Start to massage your back, the biggest part of your body,

2386
06:05:35.040 --> 06:05:41.959
starting at the top, starting again where we already have been,

2387
06:05:42.720 --> 06:05:47.159
the area at the top in between his shoulders and

2388
06:05:47.319 --> 06:05:52.680
near your neck. Going back a message in that area again,

2389
06:05:53.799 --> 06:06:07.520
but this time moving downwards, taking a downward stroke to

2390
06:06:07.560 --> 06:06:14.080
the middle of your back, working from the outside inwards.

2391
06:06:15.279 --> 06:06:21.720
It's a massage in the your back, but the the

2392
06:06:21.840 --> 06:06:32.279
outsides of your back, the parts where your arms would

2393
06:06:32.319 --> 06:06:45.520
maybe rest against, almost the path that connects your front

2394
06:06:45.720 --> 06:07:03.880
to your back. Just massaging down but gently as firm

2395
06:07:03.919 --> 06:07:12.119
as you want, moving down and moving across a little bit,

2396
06:07:12.159 --> 06:07:16.119
and moving all the way down again, be very gentle

2397
06:07:17.880 --> 06:07:29.080
yet firm as you choose. Eventually you get to the spine.

2398
06:07:30.479 --> 06:07:34.200
We can message the muscles and either side of your

2399
06:07:34.279 --> 06:07:38.159
spine from the top of your neck all the way

2400
06:07:38.319 --> 06:07:49.400
down to your lower back. We can do that a

2401
06:07:49.520 --> 06:08:00.759
few times. Sometimes people use the knuckle or the two

2402
06:08:00.959 --> 06:08:06.759
fingers and just go your side of the spine, almost

2403
06:08:07.200 --> 06:08:10.240
just push down, go all the way down to the

2404
06:08:10.279 --> 06:08:18.880
bottom of the spine. Each time releasing tension and opening

2405
06:08:19.000 --> 06:08:28.000
up the body, stretching your body so that you feel

2406
06:08:28.799 --> 06:08:46.240
more relaxed but at the same time rejuvenated. And now

2407
06:08:46.279 --> 06:08:50.159
I'm going to move to one side, to your right side,

2408
06:08:54.959 --> 06:08:59.520
and from the bottom of your ribs to your pelvis,

2409
06:09:00.599 --> 06:09:06.840
I'm going to massage that area of your back. I'll

2410
06:09:06.959 --> 06:09:09.959
stretch over the other side and i will pull the

2411
06:09:10.080 --> 06:09:16.880
muscles gently and massage and push from one end that

2412
06:09:17.159 --> 06:09:21.520
side or way to my side to the middle of

2413
06:09:21.639 --> 06:09:27.279
fact to where your spine is. Massaging that side of

2414
06:09:27.360 --> 06:09:34.159
your spine the opposite side to where I'm standing. It's

2415
06:09:34.240 --> 06:09:40.119
almost like kneading bread. There's that big area which is

2416
06:09:41.680 --> 06:09:51.959
firm yet lots there to massage. Potentially one of the

2417
06:09:52.040 --> 06:09:58.639
most important places to actually have a message because you

2418
06:09:59.680 --> 06:10:05.159
feel there. You really feel the release and the pleasure

2419
06:10:06.520 --> 06:10:13.720
of having your lower back massaged. It releases so much

2420
06:10:14.279 --> 06:10:22.680
from your body that's not useful, starting a healing process

2421
06:10:24.319 --> 06:10:37.040
which will continue long after this recording is over. The

2422
06:10:37.240 --> 06:10:40.360
message in this part of your body not only feels

2423
06:10:40.520 --> 06:10:46.560
really good for you, it's actually fun to do because

2424
06:10:46.599 --> 06:10:51.959
it is, as I said, like kneading bread. It's a

2425
06:10:52.080 --> 06:10:56.240
part that you can really get hold of and really

2426
06:10:56.479 --> 06:11:09.720
massage deeply. If that's your choice, then I'm going to

2427
06:11:09.799 --> 06:11:12.200
move over to the other side of your body and

2428
06:11:12.360 --> 06:11:21.479
do the same with the opposite part of your lawer back,

2429
06:11:24.040 --> 06:11:32.720
kneading and messaging from your sides all the way to

2430
06:11:32.840 --> 06:11:40.319
the middle of your back where your spine is pressing

2431
06:11:40.680 --> 06:11:51.119
and kneading, firm and gentle at the same time. It

2432
06:11:51.360 --> 06:12:03.560
feels so releasing. This mixture of pleasure come for release, calmness,

2433
06:12:03.959 --> 06:12:15.599
relaxation or mixed together. Plus there's that feeling from your

2434
06:12:15.680 --> 06:12:20.799
stomach as it's being stretched. Even though you're in your

2435
06:12:20.880 --> 06:12:25.159
stomach now, you can feel it being stretched because that

2436
06:12:25.360 --> 06:12:36.720
whole area is connected to your stomach. Now we're going

2437
06:12:36.799 --> 06:12:41.720
to move or move further up to your top of

2438
06:12:41.799 --> 06:12:48.080
your body and we do the same this time, starting

2439
06:12:49.439 --> 06:12:55.680
with your upper back. Put my hands forward over and

2440
06:12:55.880 --> 06:13:03.240
messing massage in that area up to your spine, from

2441
06:13:03.279 --> 06:13:07.439
the side of your body up to your spine. So

2442
06:13:07.599 --> 06:13:13.919
some of that massage area, the muscle tissue or whatever

2443
06:13:14.119 --> 06:13:19.799
fatty tissue even will be possibly from your chest. There's

2444
06:13:19.880 --> 06:13:26.880
all connected. The chest and the back connect together. I'm

2445
06:13:26.919 --> 06:13:30.119
going to be massaging and just pulling some of that

2446
06:13:30.400 --> 06:13:41.080
skin from your side up and massaging that area of

2447
06:13:41.200 --> 06:13:49.639
your upper back all the way to your spine. And

2448
06:13:49.759 --> 06:13:52.479
then I'll move down a bit and I'll continue with

2449
06:13:52.639 --> 06:13:55.479
the middle of your back doing exactly the same thing.

2450
06:13:59.319 --> 06:14:12.880
There's gen tour is deep as you choose. Now, I'll

2451
06:14:12.959 --> 06:14:17.040
move or the other side again and do the exact

2452
06:14:17.240 --> 06:14:20.959
same thing with the top of your back on the

2453
06:14:21.040 --> 06:14:30.599
other side, from pretty much underneath your arm area really

2454
06:14:36.000 --> 06:14:45.799
to your spine, and then continuing that all the way

2455
06:14:45.919 --> 06:15:04.439
down including your lower your middle of your back. I'm

2456
06:15:04.520 --> 06:15:09.439
gonna go to your thighs, the backs of your thighs,

2457
06:15:12.119 --> 06:15:19.119
and the sides of your thighs, starting with your right

2458
06:15:19.319 --> 06:15:28.560
leg and massage in the back and the sides of

2459
06:15:28.680 --> 06:15:36.880
your thighs gently and firmly. There's a lot of muscles there.

2460
06:15:37.919 --> 06:15:40.639
It's an area that can be very tense at times

2461
06:15:41.360 --> 06:15:44.680
and maybe needs a little bit more pressure than the

2462
06:15:44.759 --> 06:15:52.680
rest of the body that's up to you. You can

2463
06:15:52.799 --> 06:15:59.479
gently stroke the back of your legs where you know,

2464
06:16:00.159 --> 06:16:06.240
opposite your knee joint or underneath your knee joint, very sensitive,

2465
06:16:06.479 --> 06:16:19.119
gentle area. And then working down to your calf muscles.

2466
06:16:22.040 --> 06:16:27.919
Massage in your calf muscles thoroughly and deeply, if you

2467
06:16:28.119 --> 06:16:48.799
choose using both hands and fingers, digging deep to your ankles,

2468
06:16:51.080 --> 06:16:56.680
in the back of your back of your ankles, just

2469
06:16:57.000 --> 06:17:08.599
gently massage in that area, maybe lifting the leg and

2470
06:17:09.479 --> 06:17:32.639
stretching a little bit. Moving to the right foot, massage

2471
06:17:32.759 --> 06:17:41.880
in the bottom of your feet and the side of

2472
06:17:41.959 --> 06:17:53.240
your feet gently but firm enough so they don't tickle,

2473
06:17:58.759 --> 06:18:04.240
and just allow the pleasure that you get from having

2474
06:18:04.319 --> 06:18:13.720
your feet massaged to just overtake you as I continue

2475
06:18:13.840 --> 06:18:20.439
to message your feet, the bottoms of your feet, the sides,

2476
06:18:23.040 --> 06:18:28.759
your arches, your heel. You can put a lot of

2477
06:18:28.840 --> 06:18:34.720
pressure into your heel and it feels amazing, Yet the

2478
06:18:34.919 --> 06:18:43.000
arches need to be a bit more gentle. Stretching your

2479
06:18:43.159 --> 06:18:49.599
toes gently the message in the bottoms of your toes

2480
06:18:50.360 --> 06:19:05.639
with my fingers, each one individually, moving her to the

2481
06:19:05.799 --> 06:19:15.200
left leg to do exactly the same thing, starting at

2482
06:19:15.240 --> 06:19:19.639
the top of the thighs, work in the back of

2483
06:19:19.720 --> 06:19:27.319
the thighs and the sides, massaging deeply and gently the

2484
06:19:27.479 --> 06:19:41.479
whole area, working all the way down. And this is

2485
06:19:41.560 --> 06:19:47.680
an area that maybe you could like to spend more

2486
06:19:47.840 --> 06:19:56.439
time relaxing and massaging. So perhaps if you wanted I

2487
06:19:56.520 --> 06:20:01.439
could make a future recording. Why spend more time on

2488
06:20:01.639 --> 06:20:13.799
one particular area. As you move down to your calf muscles.

2489
06:20:19.799 --> 06:20:33.159
Massage in your calf muscles firmly and gently, moving down

2490
06:20:35.479 --> 06:20:41.840
your aincor into your feet, Massage in the backs of

2491
06:20:41.959 --> 06:20:52.799
your feet, bottoms of your feet, stretching your toes, and

2492
06:20:53.040 --> 06:20:59.680
massage in each tone individually. And the feeling of pleasure

2493
06:21:01.040 --> 06:21:05.520
and release that you experience when your having your feet

2494
06:21:05.880 --> 06:21:27.360
massaged feels really good. Now shed turn over in your mind.

2495
06:21:28.680 --> 06:21:38.439
Laying on your back, I'm just going to start again

2496
06:21:41.720 --> 06:21:56.400
for your neck area in your shoulders, just to get

2497
06:21:56.479 --> 06:22:06.200
back in touch with that area. And as you move up,

2498
06:22:14.040 --> 06:22:18.840
I can clean my hands, make them more fresh, because

2499
06:22:18.919 --> 06:22:28.080
now I'm gonna message your face gently, starting off with

2500
06:22:28.240 --> 06:22:38.880
your forehead. Your eyes are closed and I can just

2501
06:22:39.439 --> 06:22:45.680
stretch your eyes a little bit, pushing up on your eyebrows,

2502
06:22:52.479 --> 06:23:05.279
just massaging around just scalp, massaging down your cheeks, around

2503
06:23:05.360 --> 06:23:17.599
your ears, into your chaw, gently the side of your

2504
06:23:17.720 --> 06:23:40.040
neck chin mhm, and just moving down shall your neck

2505
06:23:40.240 --> 06:23:47.959
down to your chest, starting by massage in the very

2506
06:23:48.159 --> 06:23:56.720
top of your chest where the collar bone is. Either

2507
06:23:56.919 --> 06:24:08.439
side of the collar bone and then just message in

2508
06:24:08.599 --> 06:24:29.680
the whole of the chest, moving the chest around, because

2509
06:24:29.720 --> 06:24:34.400
it's quite a large area, you can move from one

2510
06:24:34.599 --> 06:24:45.560
side to the next, moving my hands underneath pretty much

2511
06:24:45.599 --> 06:24:55.080
where your arms are, stretching up, stretching some of the

2512
06:24:55.200 --> 06:25:04.439
muscles of your back in the process, moving up over

2513
06:25:04.520 --> 06:25:24.400
your chest and then moving down again, and then allowing

2514
06:25:24.520 --> 06:25:31.599
my hands to just massage gently and slide down towards

2515
06:25:31.639 --> 06:25:39.639
your stomach, starting in the middle of your chest, and

2516
06:25:39.759 --> 06:25:46.439
then gradually my hands moving apart and massage in and

2517
06:25:46.680 --> 06:25:55.759
slide in at the same time, moving down to just

2518
06:25:55.880 --> 06:26:11.400
below your red cage, moving down the messaging up again,

2519
06:26:14.200 --> 06:26:22.080
giving your chest all the attention that it needs to

2520
06:26:22.279 --> 06:26:34.479
feel completely relaxed. Remembering that I'm also going to be

2521
06:26:34.599 --> 06:26:40.599
focusing on your sides as well, an area that really

2522
06:26:40.880 --> 06:26:48.479
doesn't get much attention but feels really good when it's massaged.

2523
06:26:53.400 --> 06:26:57.400
Just stroking my hands down the sides of your body,

2524
06:27:01.200 --> 06:27:04.599
just below your arms, all the way down to your hips.

2525
06:27:14.279 --> 06:27:20.119
Now move into your stomach area. We're going to stand

2526
06:27:20.240 --> 06:27:22.919
one side of you. Like I did when I did

2527
06:27:22.959 --> 06:27:28.200
your lower back. We need to do a similar process

2528
06:27:29.200 --> 06:27:39.880
of just stretching the muscles from your side gently massaging

2529
06:27:44.080 --> 06:27:48.439
from one side to the next, move in.

2530
06:27:50.959 --> 06:27:55.159
A whole area from below your ribs all the way

2531
06:27:55.279 --> 06:28:06.119
down to below your belly button, and then move around

2532
06:28:06.200 --> 06:28:09.200
to the other side of you and repeat.

2533
06:28:08.799 --> 06:28:28.599
That process of relaxing deeply, calmly. You feel loose, you

2534
06:28:28.759 --> 06:28:34.680
feel free. And it's something about having your stomach massage

2535
06:28:35.919 --> 06:28:42.639
that's different from any other part because we do have

2536
06:28:42.799 --> 06:28:47.240
a tendency of holding a different kind of stress in

2537
06:28:47.319 --> 06:28:56.840
our stomachs that we may not be aware of, as

2538
06:28:56.880 --> 06:29:02.400
in our message, your stomach in front of your stomach,

2539
06:29:04.360 --> 06:29:15.319
making circles around your belly button, and then going the

2540
06:29:15.400 --> 06:29:25.240
other way around. There's a gentleness and a freedom that

2541
06:29:25.479 --> 06:29:36.840
comes from feeling how you're feeling. As I now move

2542
06:29:37.360 --> 06:29:44.439
down the tops of your thighs the muscles, massaging them,

2543
06:29:46.000 --> 06:29:49.360
and I can do this two legs at the same time,

2544
06:29:51.599 --> 06:30:00.919
pressing down, massaging deeply those muscles in your thighs, the

2545
06:30:01.040 --> 06:30:09.759
front of your thighs, and moving down to your knees,

2546
06:30:10.680 --> 06:30:23.360
gently massaging your knees, sliding down your shins, putting pressure

2547
06:30:23.439 --> 06:30:31.159
on either side of your shin gently softly but firmly,

2548
06:30:35.360 --> 06:30:44.680
moving down to your ankles, stroking the tops of your

2549
06:30:44.720 --> 06:30:56.000
feet and then with each foot in each hand, just

2550
06:30:56.200 --> 06:31:05.159
gently messaging the whole of the foot, the top, the bottom,

2551
06:31:05.919 --> 06:31:13.959
your heel, your ankle, your toes, message in every part

2552
06:31:14.200 --> 06:31:24.080
of your feet. Feels so good, Just let go and

2553
06:31:24.360 --> 06:31:49.240
enjoy the process. Enjoy feeling so deeply relaxed, so much comfort,

2554
06:31:49.400 --> 06:31:56.400
and so many feelings that come just from touching your skin.

2555
06:32:07.119 --> 06:32:13.080
And you can just lie there for as long as

2556
06:32:13.159 --> 06:32:25.720
you choose, enjoying the feeling of deep comfort and being

2557
06:32:25.880 --> 06:32:57.639
massaged by me. Enjoy feeling deeply ras And all we're

2558
06:32:57.639 --> 06:33:03.680
gonna do is blow out some candles.

2559
06:33:06.200 --> 06:33:21.240
In your mind, there are going to be a hundred candles,

2560
06:33:28.400 --> 06:33:34.159
and you're going to blow each one out individually, one

2561
06:33:34.560 --> 06:33:39.799
by one, starting at one hundred.

2562
06:33:40.880 --> 06:33:48.240
As I count down all the way down to one,

2563
06:33:52.759 --> 06:34:01.680
and each time I say a number, you can imagine

2564
06:34:01.720 --> 06:34:08.159
that candle in front of you, and I'd like you

2565
06:34:08.319 --> 06:34:27.599
to actually physically gently blow that candle out, just so

2566
06:34:27.639 --> 06:34:36.919
it's not big blows, just a gentle, and that candle

2567
06:34:38.400 --> 06:34:47.720
will extinguish. And then I'll say the next number to

2568
06:34:48.000 --> 06:34:57.240
move down, and you can just blow that one out

2569
06:34:57.919 --> 06:35:11.520
as well. And as we move down the numbers, you'll

2570
06:35:11.680 --> 06:35:20.360
find yourself feeling more and more relaxed. If you need

2571
06:35:22.080 --> 06:35:31.319
to sleep, you'll also find yourself becoming incredibly tired and sleepy.

2572
06:35:35.159 --> 06:35:42.639
In fact, you may struggle to blow out all one

2573
06:35:42.759 --> 06:35:59.599
hundred of these candles as you feel more and more

2574
06:36:00.080 --> 06:36:28.319
deeply relaxed, more more deeply tired, and the further you

2575
06:36:28.479 --> 06:36:44.360
go down, the more your mind starts to drift. You

2576
06:36:44.560 --> 06:36:51.439
may find that you stop listening to me after a while.

2577
06:37:00.080 --> 06:37:04.439
And even though there may be background sounds where you are,

2578
06:37:09.360 --> 06:37:20.560
you'll be aware of those sounds at the moment, be

2579
06:37:20.919 --> 06:37:36.119
me start to just not even notice them at all,

2580
06:37:38.919 --> 06:37:52.880
because they're unimportant. Where I am, I've got the sounds

2581
06:37:52.959 --> 06:37:59.720
of the birds, there's horrors, the pigeon who likes to

2582
06:37:59.759 --> 06:38:05.680
say they allow sometimes, and there's the odd plane that

2583
06:38:05.840 --> 06:38:22.479
goes by, maybe traffic and trains in the distance, But

2584
06:38:22.639 --> 06:38:34.880
none of that scens important whatsoever. More candles you blow

2585
06:38:34.959 --> 06:38:49.759
out less important. Anything is. More candles you blow out,

2586
06:38:53.959 --> 06:39:09.919
the further you seem to move away from sounds, from

2587
06:39:10.319 --> 06:39:24.680
general date days, stuff seems to just move away on

2588
06:39:24.919 --> 06:39:41.000
its own. You feel more calmer with every candle you

2589
06:39:41.240 --> 06:40:01.680
blow out, guiding the next number, did you hear me say?

2590
06:40:08.759 --> 06:40:21.000
And then you blow that candle out to so easy,

2591
06:40:25.880 --> 06:40:46.520
so simple. We're gonna start by introducing the first candle,

2592
06:40:49.959 --> 06:41:07.400
which is a hundred. First candle is one hundred. When

2593
06:41:07.680 --> 06:41:22.400
you blow that candle out, you'll find immediately a slight

2594
06:41:24.479 --> 06:41:36.360
change in how you feel, as well as a real

2595
06:41:36.639 --> 06:41:58.279
sense of positivity growing within you, relaxation and sleepiness expanding.

2596
06:42:07.080 --> 06:42:37.000
Starting with one hundred flowing out by candle, now ninety nine,

2597
06:42:55.479 --> 06:44:03.959
candle ninety eight can do nine seven, can ninety six

2598
06:44:31.840 --> 06:45:33.840
and ninety five and ninety four four can do ninety three,

2599
06:45:54.000 --> 06:47:26.880
hand ninety two and ninety one, ten to ninety eighty two,

2600
06:47:27.200 --> 06:48:26.200
nine and fifty eight and.

2601
06:48:37.759 --> 06:51:37.880
Eighties end eighty and eighty five, two four, four, eighty two.

2602
06:52:45.119 --> 06:54:56.599
And two one can seventy nine, can do seventy eight,

2603
06:55:05.520 --> 06:56:08.159
candle seventy seven, candle seventy six, candle seventy five, candle

2604
06:56:10.959 --> 06:57:08.119
seventy four, candle seventy three, candle seventy two, candle seventy one,

2605
06:57:28.840 --> 06:58:24.360
candle seventy one, candle seventy and do sixty nine candle

2606
06:58:28.319 --> 06:59:18.599
sixty eight, candle sixty seven, candle sixty five, candle sixty four,

2607
06:59:41.880 --> 07:00:32.680
candle sixty four can do sixty three, candle sixty and

2608
07:00:36.000 --> 07:02:05.720
sixty one and sixty and UH fifty nine, MHM handle

2609
07:02:08.560 --> 07:03:28.279
fifty eight, candle fifty seven, candle fifty six, candle fifty five,

2610
07:03:45.799 --> 07:05:06.599
candle fifty four, handle fifty three, handle fifty two fifty

2611
07:05:06.880 --> 07:06:47.799
two ten to fifty two candle fifty one, candle fifty

2612
07:07:11.400 --> 07:09:06.560
candle foty nine, candle forty eight, ten forty seven, candle

2613
07:09:09.279 --> 07:10:57.680
forty six, candle forty five candle vought it two candle

2614
07:11:02.119 --> 07:13:00.720
who do you are? And forty candle thirty nine and

2615
07:13:04.759 --> 07:14:25.520
thirty eight I can't do thirty seven, ten two, thirty five,

2616
07:15:09.080 --> 07:17:15.759
handle thirty four, handle thirty three, hand thirty one, chendle

2617
07:17:19.959 --> 07:20:23.880
thirty and two in ten nine, twenty eight and twenty

2618
07:20:24.520 --> 07:22:37.639
seven and twenty six, caen twenty five, yam t win.

2619
07:22:38.959 --> 07:22:39.840
Tief f.

2620
07:23:14.159 --> 07:24:32.400
Endle twenty three and to twenty two, and.

2621
07:24:36.840 --> 07:24:38.680
Do it you want.

2622
07:25:13.200 --> 07:29:03.000
And to wity m chendo ninety, chendle seventeen sixteen chancel

2623
07:29:07.799 --> 07:31:30.000
fourt ten woh and even.

2624
07:32:06.880 --> 07:32:12.159
Ten yeah.

2625
07:33:18.720 --> 07:35:01.880
Shame do nine ten y n.

2626
07:35:05.400 --> 07:36:00.279
Six you.

2627
07:36:46.119 --> 07:39:49.200
Can do, ooh do hey two two can let go

2628
07:39:50.680 --> 07:39:56.880
of all of those thoughts, worries, concerns about the past,

2629
07:39:58.720 --> 07:40:03.200
thoughts about the future, and even things you've been thinking

2630
07:40:03.240 --> 07:40:10.840
about today. Just let it all go because none of

2631
07:40:10.919 --> 07:40:20.759
it is useful in this moment. This is your opportunity

2632
07:40:25.400 --> 07:40:40.000
to just focus on feeling relaxed, allowing yourself to get

2633
07:40:40.040 --> 07:40:49.439
in touch with that natural sense of peace that we

2634
07:40:49.680 --> 07:40:56.400
all have within us. It's available for everyone. It just

2635
07:40:56.520 --> 07:41:01.639
sometimes takes a little bit of effort to set up

2636
07:41:01.759 --> 07:41:07.680
the right time and place in order for you to

2637
07:41:08.080 --> 07:41:16.959
just let go. Because when you do decide to let

2638
07:41:17.040 --> 07:41:22.200
go and relax, that's what your body starts to do

2639
07:41:25.520 --> 07:41:33.000
because you've chosen. You've chosen to just allow your body

2640
07:41:33.439 --> 07:41:41.639
to unwind and your mind starts to slow down. And

2641
07:41:41.759 --> 07:41:46.599
it's a nice feeling. It's a nice feeling at the beginning,

2642
07:41:46.840 --> 07:41:55.080
just to know that you have chosen to decide to

2643
07:41:55.720 --> 07:42:03.479
relax deeply, and because you made that decision, your body

2644
07:42:04.759 --> 07:42:10.720
will just follow suit. Because sometimes all the muscles in

2645
07:42:10.840 --> 07:42:16.599
your body need is just permission from you to relax.

2646
07:42:20.599 --> 07:42:25.400
Because so often we're busy, we're going from here to there,

2647
07:42:25.599 --> 07:42:31.360
we're walking around, and we're doing stuff, and the body

2648
07:42:31.400 --> 07:42:39.479
doesn't have any time or space to really relax deeply,

2649
07:42:42.919 --> 07:42:45.599
so it kind of waits for you to lead the way,

2650
07:42:47.720 --> 07:42:57.799
waits for your permission, and when you do give your permission,

2651
07:42:59.479 --> 07:43:02.000
when you give to say so, we need say okay,

2652
07:43:03.319 --> 07:43:10.319
it's time for your body to let go completely and

2653
07:43:10.479 --> 07:43:21.919
relax totally. Your body just follows. It's like a breath

2654
07:43:21.959 --> 07:43:31.080
of relief. Ah. Good, I can now relax. That feeling

2655
07:43:32.040 --> 07:43:34.919
at the end of a day, of a very physical

2656
07:43:35.119 --> 07:43:38.840
day that you may experience in the past. But you

2657
07:43:39.000 --> 07:43:41.720
get home and you just sit down on a chair,

2658
07:43:42.840 --> 07:43:46.680
maybe you kick your shoes off and not Ah, feels

2659
07:43:47.040 --> 07:43:51.880
so nice knowing that you don't have to get up

2660
07:43:51.919 --> 07:43:56.799
again for a little while at least if you choose,

2661
07:43:56.959 --> 07:43:59.400
you can just sit there for maybe an hour to

2662
07:44:01.680 --> 07:44:12.759
It feels blissful. And just by sitting down like that,

2663
07:44:14.240 --> 07:44:19.240
your body knows that it's time to relax. Your body

2664
07:44:19.919 --> 07:44:25.479
has been given permission from you. Because it's a mindset

2665
07:44:27.000 --> 07:44:35.720
in your mind, you're prepared to let go of everything

2666
07:44:38.159 --> 07:44:45.840
and just completely allow all the stress of your body

2667
07:44:46.639 --> 07:45:04.319
to evaporate. Any tensions can just gradually vanish. It's almost

2668
07:45:04.599 --> 07:45:16.360
like magic, really, because that sense of relaxation in your body,

2669
07:45:18.000 --> 07:45:24.159
it's a very natural state. It's not something unusual. It

2670
07:45:24.279 --> 07:45:27.560
may feel unusual when you first start to relax, if

2671
07:45:27.639 --> 07:45:31.919
you if you haven't really spent a lot of time

2672
07:45:32.200 --> 07:45:37.400
focusing and giving yourself this space to let go completely

2673
07:45:37.599 --> 07:45:43.520
and relax, they seem more most alien, but it isn't.

2674
07:45:45.080 --> 07:45:50.959
It's actually the most natural thing in the world to

2675
07:45:51.159 --> 07:46:00.959
let go completely, to relax totally, the most actual thing

2676
07:46:01.279 --> 07:46:13.439
in the world to allow yourself to feel really calm

2677
07:46:13.880 --> 07:46:20.880
in your mind. And it is almost like a literal unwinding.

2678
07:46:24.560 --> 07:46:30.040
It's like you press a button and all the tension

2679
07:46:30.400 --> 07:46:36.200
just releases, and it's like a wheel, like a cog,

2680
07:46:37.200 --> 07:46:40.720
like the inside of the clock, just unwinding, and it's

2681
07:46:40.759 --> 07:46:45.720
almost like you could see the little wind up knob

2682
07:46:45.880 --> 07:46:50.880
that's used just going the opposite way that you choose

2683
07:46:51.040 --> 07:46:58.840
to wind it up, and the energy that fremetic stress

2684
07:46:59.279 --> 07:47:08.599
for himygy gradually winding down, losing its power, losing its

2685
07:47:08.759 --> 07:47:17.319
strength as a sense of relaxation becomes stronger and deeper,

2686
07:47:21.000 --> 07:47:28.040
and you may find a the more relaxed you feel,

2687
07:47:29.439 --> 07:47:39.360
that your mind starts to wonder, maybe seemed to stop

2688
07:47:39.520 --> 07:47:44.599
listening to me for a while. Your mind goes somewhere else,

2689
07:47:46.000 --> 07:47:51.840
and then you realize you're listening to me again, and

2690
07:47:51.959 --> 07:47:58.639
that is just your mind drifting to sleep, which is

2691
07:47:58.799 --> 07:48:09.959
quite natural, because sometimes when we're stressed and tense, we're

2692
07:48:10.000 --> 07:48:13.639
not may I actually be aware of what we need,

2693
07:48:14.759 --> 07:48:23.200
what we physically or emotionally need in this moment. But

2694
07:48:23.360 --> 07:48:29.639
when you allow your body and mind to relax completely,

2695
07:48:31.400 --> 07:48:38.599
and you let go of all thoughts, concerns, worries, ideas,

2696
07:48:40.080 --> 07:48:44.599
all letting them go, allowing them to drop onto the floor,

2697
07:48:50.159 --> 07:48:56.119
you start to get in touch with the feelings of

2698
07:48:58.000 --> 07:49:08.319
such relaxation. This feels so nice to be in touch

2699
07:49:08.799 --> 07:49:15.040
with the calmness of the different body parts as they

2700
07:49:17.840 --> 07:49:31.279
become looser and looser. Even your breathing seems easier and

2701
07:49:31.520 --> 07:49:41.080
more natural, effortless, as that cool adenters through your mouth

2702
07:49:41.240 --> 07:49:51.119
or nose into your lungs, breathing in comforts and relaxation,

2703
07:49:53.759 --> 07:50:00.360
and then just breathing out any excess remain intentions dress

2704
07:50:02.159 --> 07:50:10.599
from every part of your body and mind, And as

2705
07:50:10.639 --> 07:50:16.279
you start to focus on your mind, maybe you notice

2706
07:50:16.520 --> 07:50:24.799
that things come to a standstill or maybe just much

2707
07:50:25.279 --> 07:50:33.400
much lower than before, because your mind is not really

2708
07:50:34.720 --> 07:50:44.080
needed when listening to my voice, which allows your mind

2709
07:50:44.279 --> 07:50:52.599
to relax just as deeply as your body. And that's

2710
07:50:52.720 --> 07:51:05.959
synchronicity between the relaxation of your body relaxation of your mind.

2711
07:51:08.319 --> 07:51:18.240
Let you know that feeling completely calm, loose, and relaxed

2712
07:51:20.720 --> 07:51:29.200
really is a great healing experience fear.

2713
07:51:31.520 --> 07:51:32.279
And has.

2714
07:51:36.520 --> 07:51:44.959
So many positive benefits for your body, mind, and your life.

2715
07:51:47.639 --> 07:51:56.360
To be able to let go everything and to relax completely,

2716
07:51:58.279 --> 07:52:06.400
you know, all hearts of your body and mind, even

2717
07:52:06.520 --> 07:52:14.639
your bones as a rexed, All your muscles are raxed,

2718
07:52:21.479 --> 07:52:34.880
even the skin that covers your body is relaxed, every

2719
07:52:35.479 --> 07:52:52.560
hair that you have, it's also deeply relaxed. And your

2720
07:52:52.759 --> 07:53:06.200
brain really starts to feel the beat of this healing relaxation.

2721
07:53:11.479 --> 07:53:17.479
And as you focus on the inside of your scalp

2722
07:53:17.959 --> 07:53:23.720
where your brain is, you can start to realize and

2723
07:53:24.000 --> 07:53:36.840
notice the benefits of your brain relaxing deeply. And then

2724
07:53:36.919 --> 07:53:48.319
as your brain continues to react, sends those messages to

2725
07:53:49.119 --> 07:53:57.959
the rest of your body and your mind to reverax

2726
07:53:59.080 --> 07:54:19.360
the even more deeply, relaxy more completely, letting go of

2727
07:54:20.000 --> 07:54:32.319
any remaining for ho concens allowed them just drop onto

2728
07:54:32.439 --> 07:54:41.119
the floor because they're no longer necessary in this moment,

2729
07:54:43.360 --> 07:54:56.159
In this moment of deep relaxation and calmness, filling your

2730
07:54:56.279 --> 07:55:21.080
grain with deep concentrated heathing, calming, relaxing every part of

2731
07:55:21.240 --> 07:55:42.759
your brain feething so loose and comfortable, so relaxed and peaceful.

2732
07:55:46.040 --> 07:55:57.400
Your brain feels so light, that's so healthy in that

2733
07:55:57.759 --> 07:56:07.599
sense of deep deep comfort really does allow you.

2734
07:56:11.240 --> 07:56:12.520
To enjoy.

2735
07:56:14.319 --> 07:56:23.919
Those ever increase in sensations of comfort that are spreading

2736
07:56:25.400 --> 07:56:37.200
throughout your body, relaxing each and every muscle of your body,

2737
07:56:39.639 --> 07:56:59.319
eat deeper and deeper, much more deeper than before, my

2738
07:57:00.080 --> 07:57:14.959
much small comfvent spreading true your body, your mind, be

2739
07:57:16.720 --> 07:57:33.919
so peaceful and calm, so very fairy, peaceful in avery

2740
07:57:34.439 --> 07:57:44.479
part of your body, letting him go mm hmm a

2741
07:57:45.040 --> 07:58:07.360
everything and anything, so peaceful, calm, so relax a very

2742
07:58:08.720 --> 07:58:30.759
second the passes you feel deper deper relax, dper and

2743
07:58:32.639 --> 07:58:53.520
dper relax come so calm, peace fall, so very peace

2744
07:58:56.759 --> 07:59:06.040
from your head down to time. Is such peace and

2745
07:59:06.400 --> 07:59:17.959
comfort through in all all the time, Such peace and

2746
07:59:18.319 --> 07:59:31.360
comfort spreading through your body and mind deep and deeper,

2747
07:59:34.279 --> 07:59:48.400
such comforts spreading and sinking deeper into airy muscle your body.

2748
07:59:52.040 --> 08:00:17.000
So you feel amazing, so relaxed, so peaceful, so peaceful,

2749
08:00:20.240 --> 08:00:32.119
letting go every I'm going to do a body scan

2750
08:00:33.919 --> 08:00:40.319
focusing on firstly, how you feel in your body. Not

2751
08:00:40.479 --> 08:00:45.880
trying to change how you feel, not trying to relax,

2752
08:00:47.159 --> 08:00:52.119
not trying to move away from any discomforts or stress

2753
08:00:52.360 --> 08:00:59.759
or tension. Just accepting, observing and accepting how you feel

2754
08:01:00.759 --> 08:01:05.720
in the different parts of your body, just allowing yourself

2755
08:01:07.080 --> 08:01:14.560
to be exactly as you are, to notice to get

2756
08:01:14.639 --> 08:01:23.240
in touch with how you actually feel in this moment.

2757
08:01:26.759 --> 08:01:33.240
I'm going to start off by focusing on your hands.

2758
08:01:37.840 --> 08:01:45.560
Just be aware of your hands. I'd like you to

2759
08:01:45.759 --> 08:01:50.720
move your hands around, just maybe move your fingers a

2760
08:01:50.799 --> 08:01:58.799
little bit. I've been enclosing your hands very gently, just

2761
08:01:59.319 --> 08:02:05.400
so you can get in touch with how your hands

2762
08:02:07.840 --> 08:02:28.159
and your fingers fell, very very slow movements. Focusing now

2763
08:02:29.000 --> 08:02:36.279
on your feet, and if you can just do kind

2764
08:02:36.279 --> 08:02:41.000
of an equivalent with your feet is you've just done

2765
08:02:41.240 --> 08:02:49.159
with your hands, Maybe turn in your ankles, moving your

2766
08:02:49.240 --> 08:03:00.840
feet around, moving your toes gently but only very gently

2767
08:03:01.119 --> 08:03:13.040
and very slowly, noticing how your feet feel in this moment.

2768
08:03:19.959 --> 08:03:25.799
Focusing now and your eyes, and I like you to

2769
08:03:26.040 --> 08:03:33.119
just focus on your eyelids. Maybe you can open and

2770
08:03:33.200 --> 08:03:37.720
close your eyes a couple of times to really get

2771
08:03:37.799 --> 08:03:41.599
in touch with how you feel when you do close

2772
08:03:41.680 --> 08:03:49.680
your eyes. The muscle changes in your eyes when you

2773
08:03:49.840 --> 08:03:58.680
do close them, maybe raising your eyebrows, it stretches the

2774
08:03:58.840 --> 08:04:09.479
tops of your eyes, perhaps squint in your eyes, scrunching

2775
08:04:09.599 --> 08:04:14.759
up your eyes, just so you can really again touch

2776
08:04:17.400 --> 08:04:27.959
with all aspects of how your eyes feel. Right now,

2777
08:04:37.319 --> 08:04:43.720
now focus in on your thighs, and it just starts

2778
08:04:43.799 --> 08:04:51.720
you to gently tense your thighs, just very very gently,

2779
08:04:54.080 --> 08:05:04.720
just enough so you can become more atchune to the

2780
08:05:06.040 --> 08:05:14.479
physical sensation of your upper legs, the front of your thighs,

2781
08:05:14.759 --> 08:05:25.799
and the backs of your thigh noticing and observing how

2782
08:05:28.159 --> 08:05:43.200
your thighs fear. Right now, moving your focus to the

2783
08:05:43.319 --> 08:05:50.159
back of your neck, just noticing the back of your neck,

2784
08:05:51.639 --> 08:05:56.919
the muscles, and of course they lead to the side

2785
08:05:57.000 --> 08:06:01.119
of your neck. They also lead to the top of

2786
08:06:01.240 --> 08:06:07.599
your back, which leads to your shoulders. So it's your

2787
08:06:07.919 --> 08:06:13.639
focus on the back of your neck. Maybe you can

2788
08:06:14.599 --> 08:06:20.119
move your head gently upwards as if you're looking up,

2789
08:06:22.040 --> 08:06:27.680
Maybe moving your head down as if you're looking down.

2790
08:06:30.840 --> 08:06:35.680
Perhaps moving your head side to side, right to left,

2791
08:06:37.639 --> 08:06:48.759
on only very slowly and very gently. I'm not trying

2792
08:06:48.840 --> 08:06:57.080
to force anything. It has to be very very gentle.

2793
08:07:00.119 --> 08:07:11.639
Us so you can be more in touch with the feelings,

2794
08:07:13.400 --> 08:07:21.919
with the sensations physical sensations of how the back of

2795
08:07:22.040 --> 08:07:40.880
your neck fields. Right now, as we now focus on

2796
08:07:41.000 --> 08:07:46.959
the tops of your arms, the parts where your biceps

2797
08:07:47.080 --> 08:07:51.319
and your triceps are between your elbow and your shoulders.

2798
08:07:55.080 --> 08:07:59.880
To focus on those parts, the tops of your arms,

2799
08:08:02.200 --> 08:08:09.759
you may like to just tense them, but very very

2800
08:08:09.919 --> 08:08:19.159
gently and slowly, so you're not straining or put in

2801
08:08:19.279 --> 08:08:25.759
any pressure whatsoever on your arms.

2802
08:08:28.439 --> 08:08:30.880
It's just so that you can.

2803
08:08:33.360 --> 08:08:40.560
Gain more of a sense of how your upper arms

2804
08:08:42.119 --> 08:08:54.040
are feeling in this moment and just noticing as you gently,

2805
08:08:56.200 --> 08:08:57.639
very gently.

2806
08:08:59.119 --> 08:09:00.240
And sleep.

2807
08:09:02.080 --> 08:09:13.040
Tighten the muscles and then let go, notice how the

2808
08:09:13.240 --> 08:09:28.040
tops of your arms feel. Right now, there's a now

2809
08:09:28.720 --> 08:09:38.919
focus on your stomach, the area the lower apptomen area

2810
08:09:39.599 --> 08:09:48.000
below your belly button, moving all the way down to

2811
08:09:48.119 --> 08:09:58.680
your hips, just above your grind. Maybe you're able to

2812
08:10:00.200 --> 08:10:13.080
hence these muscles in the area very very gently and slowly,

2813
08:10:18.759 --> 08:10:22.919
if that's a difficult thing to do, and maybe you

2814
08:10:23.040 --> 08:10:33.520
can just move your body, pushing your stomach up, maybe

2815
08:10:33.680 --> 08:10:39.279
moving an orbit to the side using your hips, just

2816
08:10:39.840 --> 08:10:47.840
so you can get more in tune with how you're

2817
08:10:48.720 --> 08:11:06.599
lower auto an area is feeling in this moment, Just

2818
08:11:07.040 --> 08:11:29.200
noticing the physical sensations or your lower abdomen as you

2819
08:11:29.520 --> 08:11:42.720
move your attention to your mouth, notice in your lips

2820
08:11:44.759 --> 08:11:53.200
and inside your mouth, the teeth, your guns, your tongue,

2821
08:12:02.799 --> 08:12:11.439
just noticing how your tongue in your mouth feels. It

2822
08:12:11.599 --> 08:12:20.599
may help by moving your tongue around your mouth, moving

2823
08:12:20.680 --> 08:12:28.080
it to your left, maybe pressing it gently against the

2824
08:12:28.319 --> 08:12:34.520
side of your mouth, and then to the right, gently

2825
08:12:35.040 --> 08:12:41.720
to the side of your mouth, perhaps pressing up against

2826
08:12:41.840 --> 08:12:49.840
the top of your mouth, and then down gently against

2827
08:12:49.959 --> 08:13:00.439
the bottom of your mouth, always very slowly and a

2828
08:13:01.000 --> 08:13:05.200
very very gentle.

2829
08:13:09.680 --> 08:13:10.840
So that you can.

2830
08:13:14.439 --> 08:13:38.240
Beware of how you feel in your mouth area now

2831
08:13:42.680 --> 08:13:58.840
and to focus on your wrists. And I'll ask you

2832
08:13:59.279 --> 08:14:08.040
to maybe just rotate your wrists by moving your hands

2833
08:14:09.400 --> 08:14:20.560
in a circular motion very gently and slowly, just.

2834
08:14:22.279 --> 08:14:23.680
So that you can.

2835
08:14:29.360 --> 08:14:48.119
Feel the sensations that you are currently experiencing in your wrists.

2836
08:14:52.479 --> 08:15:02.560
Perhaps move in your hands up and down again very

2837
08:15:05.119 --> 08:15:27.880
very gently and slowly, very gentzl and slow.

2838
08:15:41.319 --> 08:15:42.319
As you now.

2839
08:15:44.799 --> 08:15:59.279
Start to observe you lower back. The bay part is

2840
08:16:01.000 --> 08:16:09.119
just the bum of your hips where your coxis are

2841
08:16:16.680 --> 08:16:22.799
a whole area, which also really does include the side

2842
08:16:23.759 --> 08:16:24.759
of your body.

2843
08:16:26.200 --> 08:16:35.759
Because those muscles are very much connected. There's those muscles

2844
08:16:36.720 --> 08:16:43.439
also move into your hip area connecting to your buttics.

2845
08:16:45.959 --> 08:17:00.720
The side of your hips, and if you're physically able

2846
08:17:00.919 --> 08:17:10.840
to do so, maybe very gently just move your body

2847
08:17:13.520 --> 08:17:27.080
ever so slightly, very slowly, some side to side, just

2848
08:17:27.439 --> 08:17:43.880
enough ye to gauge how you feel in your lower back.

2849
08:17:51.479 --> 08:18:01.400
Perhaps see could even move your hips gently up and

2850
08:18:01.639 --> 08:18:20.639
down gently, slowly in order to be in touch with

2851
08:18:20.840 --> 08:18:45.000
the physical sensations of your law back. As we now live.

2852
08:18:49.759 --> 08:19:02.279
Your attention to your jaw, the area your chin all

2853
08:19:02.360 --> 08:19:10.240
the way up so near where your ears are. Of

2854
08:19:10.400 --> 08:19:25.639
your jaw, you can just yeah, it's okay to do so.

2855
08:19:27.599 --> 08:19:38.080
Gently open your mouth, not wide, no stretching, just very

2856
08:19:38.840 --> 08:19:51.479
gently and slowly opening your mouth in closing your mouth

2857
08:19:53.799 --> 08:20:19.520
very gently and slowly, say, can be in touch with

2858
08:20:19.919 --> 08:20:56.240
how you Joe feels now not to sit now the

2859
08:20:56.560 --> 08:21:11.560
chest area. You don't need to do anything to move

2860
08:21:11.680 --> 08:21:23.240
your chest because it moves every time you breathe. It

2861
08:21:23.560 --> 08:21:38.080
moves very gently and slowly automatically with each bread he tape.

2862
08:21:45.119 --> 08:22:03.639
As you focus on how your chest feels when you pray,

2863
08:22:32.680 --> 08:22:47.599
move in your focus to your forms, your elbows. Maybe

2864
08:22:47.880 --> 08:22:59.959
you're able to very gently, that's slowly dance the mother

2865
08:23:00.040 --> 08:23:03.000
muscles in your forearms.

2866
08:23:06.439 --> 08:23:08.479
And when you do that, you can.

2867
08:23:08.639 --> 08:23:40.520
Feel your elbows as well, very gently and slowly, gently

2868
08:23:43.919 --> 08:24:20.720
and softly. I'm sad your forearms until first, Yeah, focus

2869
08:24:27.880 --> 08:24:39.919
the rest of your back, your upper back in the middle,

2870
08:24:41.520 --> 08:25:01.560
the middle of your back again, this part of your body. News.

2871
08:25:03.799 --> 08:25:13.439
Also every time you pray, you may not notice that

2872
08:25:15.639 --> 08:25:27.759
usually makes you observe your upper back in the middle

2873
08:25:27.880 --> 08:25:45.279
of your back. You can really feel that gentle and

2874
08:25:46.560 --> 08:26:29.919
slow moment moving your focus.

2875
08:26:31.439 --> 08:26:32.119
Into your.

2876
08:26:33.639 --> 08:26:46.479
Area of butters the brain. There's muscles and those bones

2877
08:26:49.080 --> 08:27:23.479
in your midsection. Just noticing how your hips.

2878
08:27:25.639 --> 08:27:25.959
Feel.

2879
08:27:29.159 --> 08:27:46.959
Right now, you can very very gently move your hips,

2880
08:27:51.959 --> 08:28:31.400
maybe side to side, very gently and very cant softly.

2881
08:28:39.159 --> 08:29:02.479
M Everything starts to slow down, including the thoughts in

2882
08:29:02.599 --> 08:29:12.599
your mind and your mind itself just starts to gradually.

2883
08:29:14.560 --> 08:29:20.759
It doesn't have to be instant, but just gradually starting

2884
08:29:21.000 --> 08:29:30.599
to It's almost like time is storing chin. It's a

2885
08:29:30.799 --> 08:29:38.959
slower pace to maybe what you're used to in your

2886
08:29:39.080 --> 08:29:50.319
day to day life. It's a slower movement of energy,

2887
08:30:01.159 --> 08:30:14.080
very small movements which make up the larger movements, which

2888
08:30:14.159 --> 08:30:20.360
is always the case. Now, when you move your hand,

2889
08:30:21.959 --> 08:30:24.759
it might seem like it's one movement, but it's lots

2890
08:30:24.840 --> 08:30:32.720
of minute different muscles moving in accordance with each other.

2891
08:30:33.040 --> 08:30:45.000
And what happens in this space that we're sharing is

2892
08:30:50.360 --> 08:30:51.439
we move from.

2893
08:30:54.159 --> 08:30:56.840
That big.

2894
08:31:01.240 --> 08:31:18.279
Movement into those smaller movements. Starting to focus on how

2895
08:31:18.400 --> 08:31:25.680
your body feels, not just as a whole, not just oh,

2896
08:31:25.720 --> 08:31:30.000
i'm feel in this way. I'm feeling stressed or tense,

2897
08:31:30.240 --> 08:31:35.639
or I'm feeling relaxed and calm, I'm feeling this way,

2898
08:31:35.799 --> 08:31:42.680
I'm feeling that way. Starting to notice that your body

2899
08:31:47.000 --> 08:31:56.639
begins to present to you small feelings around your body,

2900
08:32:03.159 --> 08:32:15.279
small physical sensations in your legs, whether pleasurable or not.

2901
08:32:20.680 --> 08:32:29.959
Maybe resisting the temptation to label them or to judge them,

2902
08:32:31.439 --> 08:32:37.479
those feelings, just thinking them, thinking about them as just

2903
08:32:37.720 --> 08:32:54.680
being neutral, just feelings, not being particularly concerned, but just

2904
08:32:55.080 --> 08:33:09.799
noticing what your body is telling you. The feelings in

2905
08:33:09.880 --> 08:33:16.080
your arms. Instead of feeling the hole of the arm,

2906
08:33:17.479 --> 08:33:26.720
maybe notice those individual feelings, all those different muscles and

2907
08:33:30.840 --> 08:33:40.040
the skin, the hairs of your arms, all the internal

2908
08:33:40.200 --> 08:33:56.319
parts of your arms, the veins, the bones, just being

2909
08:33:56.400 --> 08:34:05.240
aware of maybe your elbow on your right arm has

2910
08:34:05.279 --> 08:34:16.639
a certain feeling. Maybe your left wrist also has its

2911
08:34:16.759 --> 08:34:37.479
own individual physical sensation. What about your forearm on your

2912
08:34:37.599 --> 08:34:49.880
right arm, your right forearm, there may not be any

2913
08:34:50.439 --> 08:34:57.680
particular feeling that you could even give a name to,

2914
08:35:01.439 --> 08:35:05.759
may not feel like anything other than just a feeling.

2915
08:35:06.680 --> 08:35:18.759
You know, it's there. The feelings in your shoulders, perhaps

2916
08:35:18.840 --> 08:35:22.560
your shoulders when you think about them, kind of almost

2917
08:35:22.759 --> 08:35:29.439
like they're the same, you know, the same feeling, almost

2918
08:35:29.599 --> 08:35:32.400
like you both of your shoulders are just one thing.

2919
08:35:34.240 --> 08:35:45.279
Of course they're not. And when you focus on your

2920
08:35:45.400 --> 08:35:53.599
left shoulder and then on your right shoulder, maybe find

2921
08:35:53.759 --> 08:35:59.159
that you move the muscles a little bit, maybe tense

2922
08:35:59.279 --> 08:36:24.840
the muscles gently, noticing the difference in each shoulder. Your

2923
08:36:24.919 --> 08:36:40.799
lower back, the left side of your lower back and

2924
08:36:41.599 --> 08:36:52.319
the right side of your lower back of course that

2925
08:36:52.520 --> 08:37:04.959
connection to your buttocks and to your hips, and also

2926
08:37:05.159 --> 08:37:18.880
moving up into the middle of your back. And sometimes

2927
08:37:19.279 --> 08:37:22.759
like right now, actually when I focus on their part,

2928
08:37:24.119 --> 08:37:28.520
when I focused on my buttocks and then I focused

2929
08:37:28.560 --> 08:37:32.680
on the middle of my back, it almost felt like

2930
08:37:32.880 --> 08:37:37.639
the muscles in my lower back were being stretched very gently,

2931
08:37:42.400 --> 08:37:47.680
just stretched a little bit. Even though I wasn't doing

2932
08:37:47.759 --> 08:37:56.560
anything to try to stretch your lower back, it just

2933
08:37:56.639 --> 08:38:08.919
seemed to happen. The feeling of very gently stretching your

2934
08:38:09.000 --> 08:38:28.080
lower back comes along. I have feeling in your chest,

2935
08:38:35.720 --> 08:38:49.119
just noticing what sensations you are experiencing in your chest

2936
08:38:49.400 --> 08:39:05.639
right now. And there's so much of the chest. Obviously,

2937
08:39:05.720 --> 08:39:09.360
there's the collar bone leading to the chest. You've got

2938
08:39:09.400 --> 08:39:18.000
the chest bone, You've got the muscles in your chest.

2939
08:39:20.799 --> 08:39:27.080
Of course, if you're female, there's possibly the breasts your

2940
08:39:27.159 --> 08:39:35.479
male you've got the different well might not make different

2941
08:39:35.520 --> 08:39:42.720
these days, but there may be more muscles at the

2942
08:39:42.840 --> 08:39:50.240
top of the chest, but at the side underneath, it's

2943
08:39:50.360 --> 08:39:53.279
pretty much the same. Whether you're a man or a woman.

2944
08:39:54.200 --> 08:39:59.880
There's muscles there, muscles that stretch out to your back

2945
08:40:01.159 --> 08:40:04.720
as well as breast tissue stretches and moves.

2946
08:40:04.479 --> 08:40:11.840
Into your back. To just being aware of your chest,

2947
08:40:20.759 --> 08:40:30.240
being with whatever feeling there is.

2948
08:40:31.639 --> 08:40:50.360
In your chest. When I noticed that, I'll focus on

2949
08:40:50.479 --> 08:40:58.119
my chest. I feel it in my back and my

2950
08:40:58.360 --> 08:41:02.479
upper back. I mean, I guess the obvious reason would

2951
08:41:02.479 --> 08:41:12.479
be because you know, I'll breathe in in then it

2952
08:41:12.599 --> 08:41:16.000
stretches my chest and my back at the same time.

2953
08:41:23.919 --> 08:41:39.119
It feels it feels okay, it doesn't feel I got

2954
08:41:39.159 --> 08:41:41.040
a little bit of pain in my right.

2955
08:41:42.799 --> 08:41:48.919
Chest, a little bit not pain, but a little discomfort, maybe.

2956
08:41:50.439 --> 08:41:58.919
Stiffness possibly, I don't know. I notice my shoulders also

2957
08:42:00.639 --> 08:42:07.840
wanting to flex for some reason. I think that's probably

2958
08:42:07.959 --> 08:42:16.599
part of my upper back, that connection between my shoulders

2959
08:42:16.639 --> 08:42:20.759
and my opper back, because I can move my shoulders

2960
08:42:20.840 --> 08:42:28.000
and stretch the muscles in my back, moving the shoulders

2961
08:42:28.080 --> 08:42:34.200
backwards or up, which then moves I think it's the

2962
08:42:34.360 --> 08:42:55.240
scapulous in your back. It feels quite nice. Actually, A

2963
08:42:55.319 --> 08:42:58.880
good thing about this is you can, if you want to,

2964
08:42:59.599 --> 08:43:13.200
you can and just flex or stimulate the various muscles

2965
08:43:14.479 --> 08:43:20.240
in your body gently in order to get more of

2966
08:43:20.279 --> 08:43:30.479
a sense of how they feel. And when you're relaxing,

2967
08:43:35.319 --> 08:43:39.520
when you detense and muscle and you let it go

2968
08:43:39.840 --> 08:43:48.639
and you let it relax, it relaxes way more than

2969
08:43:48.680 --> 08:43:59.119
it would normally. You have to feel that you're able

2970
08:43:59.200 --> 08:44:03.159
to do that. There's no point doing it if there's

2971
08:44:04.400 --> 08:44:12.040
an issue with the per part of your body. You

2972
08:44:12.159 --> 08:44:21.360
need to be gentle with yourself at all times. When

2973
08:44:21.439 --> 08:44:32.720
we're relaxing deeply It's important to be kind to yourself

2974
08:44:40.279 --> 08:44:48.759
as you notice your mind. How much has your mind

2975
08:44:49.080 --> 08:45:16.279
slowed down since we started this recording, How came and

2976
08:45:16.560 --> 08:45:27.880
peaceful is your mind right now? We have nothing to

2977
08:45:28.000 --> 08:45:37.880
think about and just my voice to listen to. Because

2978
08:45:38.000 --> 08:45:48.919
you know the intention behind this recording, this relaxation. At

2979
08:45:48.959 --> 08:45:55.400
the very least, for you to feel more relaxed at

2980
08:45:55.439 --> 08:45:58.799
the end of recording than you did at the beginning,

2981
08:46:03.959 --> 08:46:15.759
at the very least, your mind to slow down because

2982
08:46:15.840 --> 08:46:30.159
your body continues to relax, because that's what you want

2983
08:46:31.880 --> 08:46:50.919
to happen. That's what you expect to happen. For relaxation

2984
08:46:54.240 --> 08:46:55.159
to fill.

2985
08:46:57.479 --> 08:47:08.479
Your body, maybe calm your mind.

2986
08:47:09.680 --> 08:47:17.159
To the point of boredom when you start, maybe to

2987
08:47:22.799 --> 08:48:05.080
drift away. It's must as if you're moving further away

2988
08:48:05.400 --> 08:48:12.959
from a body in your mind, just leaving that there,

2989
08:48:20.959 --> 08:48:25.240
kind of liking it an escape pod and the spaceship

2990
08:48:25.639 --> 08:48:29.319
a movie, a space movie, you know, and against that

2991
08:48:29.400 --> 08:48:36.159
little pard in it since the man far away from

2992
08:48:36.200 --> 08:49:25.119
the spaceship. Save to dream and continue to relax, terrifting

2993
08:49:43.840 --> 08:49:45.400
so slow.

2994
08:49:58.200 --> 08:49:59.080
And be so.

2995
08:50:15.400 --> 08:51:01.400
Oh ho me so, and focusing on the feving of

2996
08:51:01.639 --> 08:51:14.520
those individual parts of your body that relaxing one by one.

2997
08:51:22.200 --> 08:51:34.560
You may find that every now and then you realize

2998
08:51:34.720 --> 08:51:45.560
that you are listening to my voice because your mind

2999
08:51:46.159 --> 08:52:00.880
started to imagine something different, maybe started to almost move

3000
08:52:01.080 --> 08:52:10.159
into some kind of a dreamy state, and then you

3001
08:52:10.319 --> 08:52:17.119
become aware of my voice again. And even though you

3002
08:52:18.119 --> 08:52:24.279
may want to focus on my voice, you may also

3003
08:52:25.040 --> 08:52:38.840
wish to allow your mind to just drift naturally into

3004
08:52:38.959 --> 08:53:00.560
that space of comfort and safety. As you feel warm

3005
08:53:01.040 --> 08:53:14.279
comfort spreading through your body like a warm blanket covering

3006
08:53:14.439 --> 08:53:28.439
you gently, keeping your body at just the perfect temperature,

3007
08:53:38.880 --> 08:53:49.240
and even if you can hear background sounds, they just

3008
08:53:50.639 --> 08:54:07.599
don't seem to matter anymore. That's that sense peace spreads

3009
08:54:08.159 --> 08:54:21.840
through your mind like a gentle greeze, yet strong enough

3010
08:54:22.119 --> 08:54:38.400
to blow away all negativity, strong enough to remove from

3011
08:54:38.439 --> 08:54:48.159
your mind any anxiety or stress that was there before,

3012
08:54:56.520 --> 08:55:05.400
and blow away any other thoughts for feelings that just

3013
08:55:07.240 --> 08:55:31.639
don't fit with the sense relaxation that is feeling your

3014
08:55:31.720 --> 08:55:54.560
body and your mind. Unless you focus on your mind

3015
08:55:56.799 --> 08:56:02.720
and countdown from ten down to one, and with each

3016
08:56:03.279 --> 08:56:28.319
number you hear, your mind will become slightly more relaxed,

3017
08:56:31.119 --> 08:56:39.639
just just slightly, from ten down to nine, just a

3018
08:56:39.880 --> 08:56:54.159
slight movement nine down to eight, just another small change

3019
08:56:55.599 --> 08:57:07.159
in how you feel. Eight down to seven. That feeling

3020
08:57:07.319 --> 08:57:13.040
is a gap, almost like a gap that starts to

3021
08:57:13.159 --> 08:57:22.000
get the wider, the gap between those feelings that you

3022
08:57:22.279 --> 08:57:29.639
used to have in your mind compared to the feelings

3023
08:57:29.759 --> 08:57:37.639
you have the growing now feelings of comfort and security

3024
08:57:37.959 --> 08:57:49.279
and confidence, and the gap becomes wider. Eight down to seven,

3025
08:57:49.680 --> 08:57:58.479
seven down to six. When you get to five, the

3026
08:57:58.759 --> 08:58:12.360
mind will start to have a certain physical sensation, most

3027
08:58:12.520 --> 08:58:19.479
like there's a magnet outside of your head sucking pretension

3028
08:58:19.720 --> 08:58:25.439
and stress and any remaining feelings that you don't want,

3029
08:58:27.479 --> 08:58:36.520
sucking them out through your skull. And in down to

3030
08:58:36.799 --> 08:58:44.240
four you can start to really experience that sense of

3031
08:58:45.759 --> 08:58:56.279
not just emptiness, but space, place full of fresh air,

3032
08:59:01.279 --> 08:59:08.080
place where you can stretch. It's almost as if as

3033
08:59:08.159 --> 08:59:11.560
you go down to four and three, your.

3034
08:59:11.680 --> 08:59:16.439
Mind is expanding with this sense.

3035
08:59:19.080 --> 08:59:20.360
Of peace.

3036
08:59:21.759 --> 08:59:28.279
And tranquility growing and moves down to.

3037
08:59:31.840 --> 08:59:35.240
When you get to one, your mind.

3038
08:59:38.240 --> 08:59:51.319
Just feels exactly how you want to feel, almost perfect feeling,

3039
08:59:57.159 --> 09:00:02.040
maybe the sensation that.

3040
09:00:03.639 --> 09:00:05.080
You'd like to keep.

3041
09:00:08.080 --> 09:00:18.639
The place that's say, where nothing can affect you at

3042
09:00:18.720 --> 09:00:34.439
all and you can stay in that a space of

3043
09:00:34.759 --> 09:00:45.119
conform confidence, confident in your own ability to create this

3044
09:00:46.080 --> 09:00:52.080
space and this feeling of comfort within your own mind

3045
09:00:53.639 --> 09:00:56.200
just by accounting ten.

3046
09:00:57.799 --> 09:00:58.479
Down to one.

3047
09:01:03.040 --> 09:01:07.599
And this is something that you can do yourself when

3048
09:01:07.639 --> 09:01:14.880
you're on your own, the time when you can maybe

3049
09:01:15.119 --> 09:01:23.680
sit down, maybe just for a few minutes, close your eyes,

3050
09:01:27.520 --> 09:01:39.200
just count slowly from ten down to one and re

3051
09:01:39.439 --> 09:01:45.520
experience these feelings in your mind.

3052
09:01:51.400 --> 09:01:51.840
And when you.

3053
09:01:52.040 --> 09:02:01.919
Feel that way in your mind, your body copies your mind,

3054
09:02:07.840 --> 09:02:13.720
and the feeling is spread through your spine and your

3055
09:02:13.880 --> 09:02:21.680
nervous system into every part of your body, travels through

3056
09:02:21.759 --> 09:02:35.959
your blood stream, heathing and relaxing every particle of your existence.

3057
09:02:48.680 --> 09:02:52.680
And we can we can practice this a few times

3058
09:02:57.400 --> 09:02:59.639
before the end of the recording.

3059
09:02:59.680 --> 09:03:00.479
And then you can.

3060
09:03:01.880 --> 09:03:08.319
Practice on your own. And each time you countfort ten

3061
09:03:09.319 --> 09:03:24.360
about one, the feelings of comforts, calmness, deep deep relaxation

3062
09:03:25.599 --> 09:03:42.680
becomes stronger and deeper feeling mind and brain. With these

3063
09:03:43.880 --> 09:03:54.680
positive chemicals, the spread throughout your body, relaxing you so quickly,

3064
09:03:56.720 --> 09:04:03.560
relaxing your whole body and mind so very.

3065
09:04:05.119 --> 09:04:07.240
Very easily.

3066
09:04:09.240 --> 09:04:11.000
Just by counting.

3067
09:04:15.560 --> 09:04:16.360
Down to one.

3068
09:04:21.520 --> 09:04:24.759
So we can do Now, I'm going to count from

3069
09:04:24.919 --> 09:04:29.200
ten down to one. I'd like you to repeat the

3070
09:04:29.400 --> 09:04:30.520
number after me.

3071
09:04:31.759 --> 09:04:36.319
So when I say ten, you can.

3072
09:04:36.360 --> 09:04:39.080
Just repeat to yourself.

3073
09:04:40.439 --> 09:04:40.680
Ten.

3074
09:04:46.319 --> 09:04:55.639
Just notice, be aware of how you feel in your

3075
09:04:55.799 --> 09:05:05.319
mind and your body. Then when I say nine, you

3076
09:05:05.439 --> 09:05:20.880
can repeat to yourself nine a game, noticing the increase

3077
09:05:21.200 --> 09:05:29.400
in comfort calms in your mind and in your body,

3078
09:05:35.400 --> 09:05:44.840
the same when I say eight, when I say seven, six,

3079
09:05:47.400 --> 09:06:01.720
when I say five, four, when I say three, two,

3080
09:06:06.119 --> 09:06:19.879
and lastly you want to say one, be that number. Now.

3081
09:06:20.040 --> 09:06:25.599
Of course, when you do this on your own without

3082
09:06:25.720 --> 09:06:30.720
listening to me, you can say the numbers or whatever

3083
09:06:32.319 --> 09:06:40.800
speed that you feel is necessary for you, so you

3084
09:06:40.919 --> 09:06:46.720
can adapt. So if you feel you want to say

3085
09:06:46.800 --> 09:06:48.000
the numbers.

3086
09:06:47.800 --> 09:06:49.519
Ten down to one.

3087
09:06:51.199 --> 09:06:55.720
Faster than I do, then you go ahead and do that.

3088
09:06:56.639 --> 09:07:00.639
Or if you feel when you do it yourself, you'd

3089
09:07:00.919 --> 09:07:09.279
like to have more more space between the numbers, maybe

3090
09:07:09.480 --> 09:07:11.120
take a lot longer.

3091
09:07:11.959 --> 09:07:13.279
To get from ten.

3092
09:07:15.239 --> 09:07:23.480
All the way down to one, that's your choice also

3093
09:07:23.800 --> 09:07:35.239
to do. So I'm going to count and.

3094
09:07:35.519 --> 09:07:43.519
Ten down to one, then I get to one.

3095
09:07:44.879 --> 09:07:50.800
That will be the end of this recording, unless, of course,

3096
09:07:50.879 --> 09:07:55.000
you're listening with music and the music will continue.

3097
09:08:15.319 --> 09:08:15.360
No.

3098
09:08:40.720 --> 09:11:51.160
Fo Us.

3099
09:12:34.559 --> 09:13:55.639
Twenty ninety eighteen, seventeen, sixty, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four,

3100
09:14:00.000 --> 09:14:28.239
three two one. Now open your eyes. Noticin how you

3101
09:14:28.360 --> 09:14:36.720
physically feel having counted down from twenty to one, allowing

3102
09:14:37.519 --> 09:14:41.959
stress attention to leave through your fingertips and your toes.

3103
09:14:43.480 --> 09:14:46.559
And as you focus on your fingertips.

3104
09:14:47.440 --> 09:14:52.120
Maybe they feel a little bit tingly, which is.

3105
09:14:53.519 --> 09:14:58.440
I suppose quite an understanding considering attention has been exiting

3106
09:14:58.559 --> 09:14:59.360
your body.

3107
09:14:59.199 --> 09:14:59.959
Through your finger.

3108
09:15:06.680 --> 09:15:08.680
So now I'm going to count from twenty down to

3109
09:15:08.800 --> 09:15:16.000
one again. This time you need to feel relief of

3110
09:15:16.199 --> 09:15:21.400
tension and stress and the anxiety that.

3111
09:15:21.440 --> 09:15:21.919
You may have.

3112
09:15:26.559 --> 09:15:34.959
Leaving through your stomach. Just leaving through your stomach, almost

3113
09:15:35.000 --> 09:15:41.599
as if it's just releasing to hold your stomach and

3114
09:15:41.879 --> 09:15:46.400
enable to just above your chest or below your chest,

3115
09:15:46.559 --> 09:15:51.120
rather to surrounding your belly by an area the whole area.

3116
09:15:53.199 --> 09:15:57.800
You can feel the tension of your body wherever's left,

3117
09:15:58.080 --> 09:16:03.400
just releasing from the area, and you may notice that

3118
09:16:03.519 --> 09:16:09.760
your stomach will become very relaxed as I countdown from

3119
09:16:09.879 --> 09:16:58.440
twenty down to one now twenty nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve,

3120
09:17:02.000 --> 09:17:29.120
eleven damn nine eight seven six, five.

3121
09:17:33.639 --> 09:17:38.599
Four three.

3122
09:17:42.839 --> 09:17:48.440
Two what.

3123
09:17:53.480 --> 09:17:56.480
You can open your eyes again, if you choose, just

3124
09:17:56.599 --> 09:18:03.080
keep them closed because it feels relaxing. Just notice saying your.

3125
09:18:03.080 --> 09:18:08.639
Stomach, girl's notice as your focus. Just do a little

3126
09:18:08.760 --> 09:18:09.919
scan of your body.

3127
09:18:12.040 --> 09:18:13.400
Just notice, say your body of.

3128
09:18:13.480 --> 09:18:25.760
Girls, focusing on upper body, back, chest, stomach, legs, arms, hands, feet,

3129
09:18:28.800 --> 09:18:35.559
Just noticing, and you know, you may start to a

3130
09:18:38.199 --> 09:18:42.440
more a sense of tiredness, which may be the reason

3131
09:18:43.120 --> 09:18:48.480
listening to this according because you like to.

3132
09:18:50.120 --> 09:19:02.000
Let go completely of everything and dread or into a nice, yeah, true, calm,

3133
09:19:02.400 --> 09:19:04.599
relaxing sleep.

3134
09:19:12.199 --> 09:19:21.559
So now we're going to focus. I'm a forehead, and

3135
09:19:21.639 --> 09:19:24.480
if you choose, you can incorporate your eyes in this

3136
09:19:24.800 --> 09:19:29.000
focus as well. Your forehead and your eyes.

3137
09:19:31.120 --> 09:19:33.400
It's that whole area basically.

3138
09:19:33.879 --> 09:19:36.839
Almost as if you were wearing a mask, you know,

3139
09:19:37.040 --> 09:19:37.319
like a.

3140
09:19:39.279 --> 09:19:46.160
I don't know, a Batman mask or something or zorro

3141
09:19:46.440 --> 09:19:48.080
or something, you know, the kind of mask.

3142
09:19:47.919 --> 09:19:50.839
That covers your eyes but also covers quite a lot

3143
09:19:50.879 --> 09:19:57.760
of the forehead. Focusing on that area because that's the

3144
09:19:57.879 --> 09:20:02.239
area that we're now going to release tension, stress from

3145
09:20:02.279 --> 09:20:07.680
your mind and your brain, from your mind and any

3146
09:20:08.120 --> 09:20:12.599
tension you may have remaining your face, in your neck

3147
09:20:13.080 --> 09:20:18.959
and your jewel, your eyes, your forehead, or your scalp.

3148
09:20:20.559 --> 09:20:22.720
So basically any tension.

3149
09:20:22.959 --> 09:20:27.800
Within your head area, including your mind and your brain

3150
09:20:31.720 --> 09:20:33.400
that's going to be released.

3151
09:20:34.519 --> 09:20:36.279
Through your forehead and your eyes.

3152
09:20:40.239 --> 09:20:41.839
As I count down the game.

3153
09:20:41.760 --> 09:21:52.480
From twenty down to one now twenty nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight,

3154
09:21:57.279 --> 09:22:07.239
seven six, Why.

3155
09:22:17.120 --> 09:22:27.279
Three, Why.

3156
09:22:38.680 --> 09:22:46.080
She scanned her face, the jure your eyes, the cheapens

3157
09:22:46.279 --> 09:22:56.160
your hands, you boyhead, your scalp, the back, your neck,

3158
09:22:56.400 --> 09:22:57.639
in the front of your name.

3159
09:22:58.599 --> 09:23:02.599
The signs of the man can not great m hm.

3160
09:23:07.199 --> 09:23:11.440
Letice beware the comfort.

3161
09:23:13.360 --> 09:23:23.919
Increased relaxation, not just in my head and neck and mind,

3162
09:23:24.919 --> 09:23:33.919
also the rest of your body. Just let is how loose.

3163
09:23:35.239 --> 09:23:39.239
And calm you them, and how easily.

3164
09:23:41.000 --> 09:23:49.239
It is to just let go completely, let go.

3165
09:23:51.639 --> 09:24:12.760
Completely easily, So two bounds. I want to focus on

3166
09:24:12.839 --> 09:24:20.879
the top of your head. I'm allowed.

3167
09:24:22.040 --> 09:24:29.519
Every last peace of tension or stress of mind.

3168
09:24:30.360 --> 09:24:35.239
And lingering or hiding your body mind.

3169
09:24:35.800 --> 09:24:42.800
Hed to just be sucked down on top of your

3170
09:24:42.839 --> 09:24:54.080
head released. Yeah, I wanna sat down into the clouds.

3171
09:24:56.839 --> 09:25:01.519
Let you be aloud of God, your head almost like

3172
09:25:01.639 --> 09:25:07.680
a whirlpool. This is can suck at tension now at

3173
09:25:07.720 --> 09:25:12.279
the top of your head. I'll just take you away,

3174
09:25:17.760 --> 09:25:21.919
said this. Imagine an opening on top of your head

3175
09:25:23.279 --> 09:25:29.360
with a tension, stress and in remaining issues maybe ways

3176
09:25:29.480 --> 09:25:34.639
of consandst no ease to you now can all be

3177
09:25:34.959 --> 09:25:39.519
sucked down at the top of your head, taken away

3178
09:25:41.519 --> 09:25:46.120
As I count down again from twenty down to work.

3179
09:25:49.319 --> 09:26:45.639
Now twenty nineteen, nineteen, seventeen, sixty fifty fourteen thirteen, wow,

3180
09:26:58.279 --> 09:27:48.239
two nine eight, seven, six, five four one.

3181
09:28:03.919 --> 09:28:06.239
Noticing how you feel.

3182
09:28:12.440 --> 09:28:14.879
How relax and calm.

3183
09:28:16.599 --> 09:28:28.319
You physically and mentally feel right now, how be peace

3184
09:28:30.800 --> 09:28:32.279
your mind feels.

3185
09:28:34.959 --> 09:28:40.120
It feels so nice to just let go, to give

3186
09:28:40.120 --> 09:28:54.199
yourself some space to breathe easily, to think calmly, just

3187
09:28:54.279 --> 09:29:01.519
to take a break from all that pointless worry concerns

3188
09:29:01.559 --> 09:29:05.440
about things that you don't need to think about.

3189
09:29:08.319 --> 09:29:15.680
Right now, because this is your time to let go.

3190
09:29:17.040 --> 09:29:19.919
This is your space to enjoy.

3191
09:29:21.120 --> 09:29:30.319
Feeling deeply relaxed, peaceful in your mind, relaxed in your body.

3192
09:29:33.400 --> 09:29:42.400
I can feel so good, so nice to just not

3193
09:29:42.720 --> 09:29:49.800
have to do anything, to be able to really.

3194
09:29:51.440 --> 09:29:56.360
Enjoy that serenity becomes.

3195
09:29:57.319 --> 09:29:59.559
And letting go completely.

3196
09:30:01.120 --> 09:30:11.559
And peacefulness that comes with in this.

3197
09:30:13.360 --> 09:30:22.760
Peaceful space. And you can keep this sense.

3198
09:30:22.599 --> 09:30:25.360
Of calmness for as long.

3199
09:30:25.120 --> 09:30:37.120
As you choose, if you choose to drift off into

3200
09:30:38.360 --> 09:30:47.360
deep healing natural sleep, and you can do that, it's

3201
09:30:47.480 --> 09:30:55.440
completely up to you, and you can keep this.

3202
09:30:55.720 --> 09:31:02.360
Feeling of calmness physically mean in your mind as long as.

3203
09:31:02.279 --> 09:31:19.639
You choose to filmniquely anex completely relax. I'd like you

3204
09:31:19.879 --> 09:31:25.639
to make up your mind, are you're going to relax?

3205
09:31:34.279 --> 09:31:37.760
And what explore that with you? What it feels like

3206
09:31:38.000 --> 09:31:46.239
when you actually decide that you're going to relax, not

3207
09:31:46.559 --> 09:31:53.559
forcing yourself, but giving yourself that. Yes, it is a commander,

3208
09:31:53.839 --> 09:32:00.760
isn't it When you're telling yourself relates in a gentle

3209
09:32:00.879 --> 09:32:04.800
but firm way that only.

3210
09:32:04.800 --> 09:32:09.839
You can really tell you something in that way. You

3211
09:32:09.919 --> 09:32:11.440
can't really have someone else saying.

3212
09:32:11.239 --> 09:32:17.360
To you, now it relax, relax, you know, and it

3213
09:32:17.440 --> 09:32:18.959
needs to be gentle, but you can't.

3214
09:32:19.120 --> 09:32:26.239
Someone else can't really have the same the same kind

3215
09:32:26.319 --> 09:32:33.919
of influence or power that you have over your own

3216
09:32:35.160 --> 09:32:46.440
physicality over how you feel, because when you say to yourself,

3217
09:32:47.720 --> 09:32:49.160
it means more.

3218
09:32:50.080 --> 09:32:56.559
It's personal, and your brain and your unconscious mind and

3219
09:32:56.680 --> 09:33:03.199
your body listens to what you say. So for example,

3220
09:33:03.839 --> 09:33:06.599
we'll test it out. You'll do a little tests, do

3221
09:33:06.720 --> 09:33:07.839
little tests.

3222
09:33:07.480 --> 09:33:11.839
Along the way, and you can get more an idea of.

3223
09:33:13.319 --> 09:33:19.279
The force, the positive force that you can have in

3224
09:33:20.319 --> 09:33:26.319
creating a sense of comfort and relaxation in your body.

3225
09:33:26.199 --> 09:33:28.800
And your mind quite quickly.

3226
09:33:30.639 --> 09:33:41.279
Just buy you telling yourself to relax. So I'm going

3227
09:33:41.360 --> 09:33:48.360
to start by let's focus on your hands. The focus

3228
09:33:48.440 --> 09:33:51.040
on your hands, and just tell your hands to relax.

3229
09:33:52.319 --> 09:33:59.279
Just say relax. As you focus on your hands, you

3230
09:33:59.400 --> 09:34:03.440
could my hands are relaxed, or.

3231
09:34:03.440 --> 09:34:04.959
I want my hands to relax.

3232
09:34:07.000 --> 09:34:12.800
I think if you actually do it directly, quite focusing

3233
09:34:13.480 --> 09:34:16.360
and imagining that your hands, can.

3234
09:34:16.319 --> 09:34:18.480
You hear what they're saying, you know, like they've got

3235
09:34:18.519 --> 09:34:20.800
little ears, which is a little weird.

3236
09:34:23.400 --> 09:34:41.559
Like talking to your hands and just say relaxing.

3237
09:34:40.440 --> 09:34:42.120
And your hands start to relax.

3238
09:34:54.519 --> 09:34:58.000
Don't focus on your eyes and tell your eyes to relax.

3239
09:34:59.160 --> 09:35:04.319
You're saying this same word relax and find the right

3240
09:35:05.440 --> 09:35:06.919
to who be you.

3241
09:35:09.480 --> 09:35:10.720
You know, I might say.

3242
09:35:11.120 --> 09:35:20.360
Relax, but you you might say relax or relax. You know,

3243
09:35:20.680 --> 09:35:26.319
you might say it differently to yourself, and that's important

3244
09:35:27.199 --> 09:35:31.360
for you to gauge what it was right for you.

3245
09:35:33.519 --> 09:35:38.680
Just tell your eyes to relax whilst focusing on your eyes,

3246
09:35:39.199 --> 09:35:43.879
your eyelids, the muscles around your eyes, your eyebrowns, and

3247
09:35:44.160 --> 09:35:47.239
just tell your eyes boring.

3248
09:35:49.879 --> 09:36:20.639
Relax now. And I just did that myself.

3249
09:36:21.000 --> 09:36:29.919
And sometimes you may feel that.

3250
09:36:30.000 --> 09:36:34.959
You need a bit more time or the different parts

3251
09:36:35.080 --> 09:36:38.959
to relax, you know, because I start talking again and

3252
09:36:39.120 --> 09:36:44.199
maybe that part hasn't relaxed fully. But what happens that

3253
09:36:44.239 --> 09:36:48.519
will just continue to relax even though I'm talking. And

3254
09:36:48.639 --> 09:36:54.400
that's happened with my eyes. Something else I've noticed is

3255
09:36:56.360 --> 09:37:00.040
when I start focused on my eyes that actually I

3256
09:37:00.160 --> 09:37:02.639
just became they got worse before they got better in

3257
09:37:02.720 --> 09:37:03.000
a way.

3258
09:37:03.720 --> 09:37:06.800
So I felt a degree of tension growing in my

3259
09:37:06.919 --> 09:37:12.879
eyes and then disappearing. So I think what that was

3260
09:37:13.000 --> 09:37:15.839
really is just me becoming more aware.

3261
09:37:16.959 --> 09:37:20.319
Of the tension that was already there.

3262
09:37:21.040 --> 09:37:26.000
I wasn't I wasn't focused on it before. I wasn't

3263
09:37:26.199 --> 09:37:34.639
really acknowledging it or really conscious to those feelings.

3264
09:37:44.199 --> 09:37:48.000
And my eyes still continuing to relax, as well as

3265
09:37:48.040 --> 09:37:54.080
my hands. Actually, my hands had got a certain kind of.

3266
09:37:56.959 --> 09:37:59.959
Energy like not buzzing that I kind of.

3267
09:38:02.440 --> 09:38:08.319
Do word degree with energy in my hands. Maybe that's

3268
09:38:08.360 --> 09:38:13.199
where the tension is being released. Maybe that's calls and that,

3269
09:38:20.599 --> 09:38:22.760
and it's part I think we should focus on the

3270
09:38:22.839 --> 09:38:25.279
back of the neck. That's a part of which quite

3271
09:38:25.319 --> 09:38:29.800
often and oft for me, hold tension. I don't know

3272
09:38:29.839 --> 09:38:34.440
about it. For yourself, I think it's quite a standard

3273
09:38:34.519 --> 09:38:37.080
place where tension is sometimes held.

3274
09:38:38.639 --> 09:38:42.480
So and I'm doing exactly what.

3275
09:38:42.559 --> 09:38:45.080
You're doing as you do it as well, so I'm

3276
09:38:45.120 --> 09:38:49.639
telling my body parts to relax as well. So if

3277
09:38:49.680 --> 09:38:52.639
you tell your neck the back of the neck, focus

3278
09:38:52.760 --> 09:38:57.720
on the back of the neck, and just say relax

3279
09:38:59.360 --> 09:39:02.680
in your own in your own tone, in your own voice,

3280
09:39:03.360 --> 09:39:05.400
you can say out loud and you can just say

3281
09:39:05.400 --> 09:39:07.760
it to yourself internally.

3282
09:39:08.720 --> 09:39:13.639
But you're focusing and you're seen literally to back the

3283
09:39:15.000 --> 09:39:15.800
is it back.

3284
09:39:17.120 --> 09:39:19.040
Year? What you see.

3285
09:39:22.400 --> 09:39:25.680
You do that now to say that the.

3286
09:39:25.720 --> 09:40:08.519
Bag unique and I didn't seem and what I noticed

3287
09:40:08.599 --> 09:40:13.800
and you made that similar thing is even though I

3288
09:40:14.000 --> 09:40:21.639
was focusing on the back of the neck, other parts

3289
09:40:22.279 --> 09:40:27.519
started to I don't know if you showed themselves to

3290
09:40:27.639 --> 09:40:30.959
me or maybe because they want to be reaped as well.

3291
09:40:31.120 --> 09:40:35.959
But I started noticing the feelings in the shoulders tension

3292
09:40:36.040 --> 09:40:37.160
and the shoulders and.

3293
09:40:37.239 --> 09:40:38.040
In the upper back.

3294
09:40:41.120 --> 09:40:45.639
Whether that was because my back of my neck was saying,

3295
09:40:47.120 --> 09:40:52.120
I'm pretty much okay. It's the other parts than the attention,

3296
09:40:58.519 --> 09:41:01.519
but my load, my back and my name is still relaxing.

3297
09:41:03.160 --> 09:41:07.800
I just became aware of other parts that needed attention,

3298
09:41:10.040 --> 09:41:15.160
that this might happen. It's not. It doesn't mean that

3299
09:41:15.199 --> 09:41:20.919
it's going wrong. It just means you're being notified more

3300
09:41:21.040 --> 09:41:28.800
places but also wants to relax. So I'm going to

3301
09:41:28.879 --> 09:41:33.639
focus on my alpha bank. So you can do the same.

3302
09:41:35.160 --> 09:41:36.760
Even if you don't have any.

3303
09:41:38.120 --> 09:41:44.319
Feelings attention obvious in the upper bank. You're just focus

3304
09:41:44.440 --> 09:41:50.440
in the bank the whole area and shoulder blades down

3305
09:41:52.319 --> 09:41:57.839
to the people bang the spine and needs to shoulder

3306
09:41:57.879 --> 09:42:11.279
the blades and it's the plaster me giving me what

3307
09:42:13.239 --> 09:42:18.919
don't need to let themselves the past and the same

3308
09:42:19.000 --> 09:42:46.519
now the last back, something strange happened there and this

3309
09:42:47.959 --> 09:42:58.519
what mappens doing this time sixteen years or something once twice.

3310
09:43:00.160 --> 09:43:06.720
Amaze being that it can be a feeling. When I

3311
09:43:06.879 --> 09:43:12.279
was focusing on the back of the upper backs started

3312
09:43:12.319 --> 09:43:19.680
to stress and need attention. Soon as have started to

3313
09:43:19.879 --> 09:43:25.040
talk to you about my apple band and talking about

3314
09:43:25.919 --> 09:43:30.919
getting ready to ask the other the back ways. When

3315
09:43:31.000 --> 09:43:36.599
the backboard is started to its as much as if

3316
09:43:36.680 --> 09:43:40.360
it doesn't need to feel the words, it just means

3317
09:43:41.839 --> 09:43:58.239
it tells its needs to be mas. That is something

3318
09:43:58.440 --> 09:44:05.239
that back happens. Mm hmm. It's way of situation. It's

3319
09:44:05.400 --> 09:44:28.199
a storm at people do I and now what they

3320
09:44:29.519 --> 09:44:36.360
the list of the body things of this ratice and

3321
09:44:36.559 --> 09:44:49.680
decided staying away starts. I'm a part of the stops

3322
09:44:54.680 --> 09:45:30.160
spaz everyone. So it's bout be body you think as

3323
09:45:31.160 --> 09:46:26.000
m It's h hop and talk before it's tom. It's

3324
09:46:26.040 --> 09:46:26.080
a